Pryor Living with Tiny Aliens

The Image of God for the Anthropocene
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-8232-8833-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten

Reihe: Groundworks: Ecological Issues in Philosophy and Theology

Living with Tiny Aliens imagines in theological terms how an individuals’ meaningful existence persists within a cosmos pregnant with living-possibilities. In doing so, it works to articulate an astrobiological humanities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pryor, Adam

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Naturwissenschaften, Technik, Medizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Being in Outer Space 1

1 Exoplanets and Icy Moons and Mars, Oh My! 15

2 Astrobiology’s Intra-Active Aliens 32

3 Being a Living-System 46

4 The imago Dei as a Refractive Symbol 62

5 Conceptualizing Nature 86

6 The Anthropocene as Planetarity in Deep Time 104

7 An Artful Planet 128

8 Living-Into Presence, Wonder, and Play 146

Epilogue: Ad Astra Per Aspera 188

Acknowledgments 201

Notes 203

Bibliography 241

Index 263

Über Autor(innen)

Pryor Adam:
Adam Pryor is Associate Professor of Religion and Dean of Academic Affairs at Bethany College. He is the author of two other books: Body of Christ Incarnate for You: Conceptualizing God’s Desire for the Flesh (Lexington, 2016) and The God Who Lives: Investigating the Emergence of Life and the Doctrine of God (Pickwick, 2014).Adam Pryor is Associate Professor of Religion and Dean of Academic Affairs at Bethany College. He is the author of two other books: Body of Christ Incarnate for You: Conceptualizing God’s Desire for the Flesh (Lexington, 2016) and The God Who Lives: Investigating the Emergence of Life and the Doctrine of God (Pickwick, 2014).