"This book takes a humanistic and theological approach to the religious culture of the West by emphasizing the importance of thinking about nature. It argues that in the current environmental crisis, our thinking about nature is under siege, for nature is too quickly seen as vic…
This text reflects critically on the kinds of appeal to the Bible that have been made in environmental ethics & ecotheology; engages with biblical texts with a view towards exploring their contribution to an ecological ethics; & explores the kind of hermeneutic necessary for suc…
Ecological Hermeneutics reflects critically on the kinds of appeal to the Bible that have been made in environmental ethics and ecotheoloogy; engages with biblical texts with a view towards exploring their contribution to an ecological ethics; and explores the kind of hermeneuti…
Creationism and its critics in antiquity
Creationism and its critics in antiquity
The world is configured in ways that seem systematically hospitable to life forms, especially the human race. Is this the outcome of divine planning or simply of the laws of physics? Ancient Greeks and Romans famously disagreed on whether the cosmos was the product of design or …
Gordon Teskey concludes that the modern artist, far from being characterised by what Benjamin (after Baudelaire) called 'loss of the aura,' is invested, as never before, with a shamanistic spiritual power that is mediated through art.
Gordon Teskey concludes that the modern artist, far from being characterised by what Benjamin (after Baudelaire) called 'loss of the aura,' is invested, as never before, with a shamanistic spiritual power that is mediated through art.
"Composed after the collapse of his political hopes, Milton's great poems Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes are an effort to understand what it means to be a poet on the threshold of a post-theological world. The argument of Delirious Milton, inspired in par…
Apocalyptic nightmares that humanly created intelligences will one day rise up against their creators haunt the western creative imagination. However, these narratives find their initial expression not in the widely disseminated Frankenstein story but in William Blake's early my…
