God's bounty?
Subtitle: the churches and the natural world
By: edited by Peter Clarke and Tony Claydon
Contributors: Ecclesiastical History Society; Ecclesiastical History Society. Summer Meeting; Ecclesiastical History Society. Winter Meeting
Series: Studies in church history -- v. 46; Studies in church history -- v. 46.
Publisher: Ecclesiastical History Society; Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK; Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 457
ISBN-13: 9780954680961
Subjects: Kongressbericht; Ecology; Kristendom; Christentum; Natur; Naturen; Nature; Christianity; Naturwissenschaften; Religiösa aspekter; Congresses; Human ecology
Description: "Christianity has long sought to learn from nature as a 'book', full of examples to illustrate religious teaching and signs of divine and saintly interventions in human history. Some Christians have even tried to live in harmony with nature in utopian communities. This volume bears witness to lively scholarly debate on these and other aspects of its theme, and covers a wide chronological, geographical and thematic range stretching from missionary encounters with the New Worlds of Australia and Latin America to popular and learned responses towards nature in early modern Italy and Hungary."--Jacket.
Notes: "Papers read at the 2008 summer meeting and the 2009 winter meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Forming the saeculum: the desacralization of nature and the ability to understand it in Augustine's Literal commentary on Genesis / Stanley P. Rosenberg; title: Plenty, portents and plague: Ecclesiastical readings of the natural world in early Medieval Europe / Sarah Foot; title: A saint and the natural world: a motif of obedience in three early Anglo-Saxon saints' lives / Olga Gusakova; title: 'Bless, O Lord, this fruit of the new trees': liturgy and nature in England in the Central Middle Ages / Tamsin Rowe; title: God's bounty, Pauperes and the Crusades of 1096 and 1147 / Conor Kostick; title: Birds, beasts and Becket: falconry and hawking in the lives and miracles of St Thomas Becket / Gesine Oppitz-Trotman; title: Cathars and the material world / Peter Biller; title: Subiaco: Innocent III's version of Elijah's cave / Brenda Bolton; title: Payback time?: tithes and tithing in Late Medieval England / R.N. Swanson; title: Devotion, popular belief and sympathetic magic among Renaissance Italian women: the Rose of Jericho as birthing aid / Suzy Knight; title: What did natural history have to do with salvation?: José de Acosta SJ (1540-1600) in the Americas / Simon Ditchfield; title: Footprints and faith: religion and the landscape in early modern Britain and Ireland / Alexandra Walsham; title: Nature, music and the Reformation in England / Jonathan Willis; title: The 'wonders of the deep' and the 'mighty tempest of the sea': nature, Providence and the English seafarers' piety, c. 1580-1640 / Sarah Parsons; title: The sea and souls: maritime votive practices in Counter-Reformation Brittany, 1500-1750 / Elizabeth Tingle; title: Devotional landscapes: God, saints and the natural world in early modern Ireland / Raymond Gillespie; title: Nature's scourges: the natural world and special prayers, fasts and Thanksgivings, 1541-1866 / Alasdair Raffe; title: 'The miraculous mathematics of the world': proving the existence of God in Cardinal Péter Pázmány's Kalauz / Tadhg Ó Hannrachain; title: 'God hath put such secretes in nature': the Reformed Kirk, church-building and the religious landscape in early modern Scotland / Andrew Spicer; title: Nature, history and the search for order: the Boyle lectures, 1730-1785 / Robert G. Ingram; title: Australian Anglican clergymen, science and religion, 1820-1850 / Michael Gladwin; title: The mountain and the flower: the power and potential of nature in the world of Victorian Evangelicalism / Mark Smith; title: Frances Ridley Havergal's Theology of nature; title: Andrew Atherstone; title: Darwin's church / Paul White; title: William Paley, Samuel Wilberforce, Charles Darwin and the Natural World: an Angelican conversation / Keith A. Francis; title: Nature and modernity: J.C. Atkinson and rural ministry in England, c. 1850-1900 (presidential address) / William Sheils; title: Heavens on Earth: Christian utopias in nineteenth- and twentieth-century America / Christopher Clark; title: Methodism, science and the thought of Herbert Butterfield / Michael Bentley; title: Which nature? Whose justice?: shifting meaning of nature in recent ecotheology / Peter Manley Scott.