Super, natural Christians
Subtitle: how we should love nature
By: Sallie McFague.
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
Subjects: Nature -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Description: Sallie McFague crafts a Christian spirituality centered on nature as the focus of our encounter with the divine. Reorienting our religious life from the "supernatural" to the "super, natural," she suggests, can help us "see these earth others ... as both subjects in themselves and as intimations of God." In discussions of city planning and wilderness, of photography, hiking, gardening, recycling, urban decay, and poverty, but also of incarnation, embodiment, and sacramentality, McFague urges the reader's conversion from "the arrogant eye" to "the loving eye." She suggests many ways people can cultivate encounters with nature and engagement in justice.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-204) and index.