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  • Green Worlds of C. S. Lewis

    The Ecology of Aslan’s Realm

    by John Gatta ...
    Decades after C. S. Lewis composed his Chronicles of Narnia, these fantasy tales about a land of enchantment continue to attract readers of all ages. They have also stimulated much commentary and reflection, both within and beyond faith communities throughout the world. The Narnia tales still have much to tell us—not only about fantasy writing and the implications of Christian faith and practice, ... Read more

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  • The Transfiguration of Christ and Creation

    by John Gatta ...
    The biblical story of Jesus' Transfiguration "on a high mountain" bristles with meanings germane to present-day concerns and spiritual longings. Together with its later artistic representations, this episode from the synoptic gospels seizes the imagination as an icon of mystical hope, beauty, and possibility. What might such an iconic episode, long honored liturgically in the Eastern church, ... Read more

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  • Green Gospel

    Foundations of Ecotheology

    by John Gatta ...
    An evocative investigation of ecotheology's first principles, Green Gospel will serve as antidote to the spiritual devastations of the climate crisis.As climate change continues to ravage our planetary home, deepening the divide between Earth and her stewards, churched and unchurched seekers alike are casting about for a spirituality that focuses on the natural world. Just in time, Green Gospel ... Read more

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  • Making Nature Sacred

    Literature, Religion, and Environment in America from the Puritans to the Present

    by John Gatta ...
    Since colonial times, the sense of encountering an unseen, transcendental Presence within the natural world has been a characteristic motif in American literature and culture. American writers have repeatedly perceived in nature something beyond itself-and beyond themselves. In this book, John Gatta argues that the religious import of American environmental literature has yet to be fully ... Read more

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  • The Saving Grace of America's Green Jeremiad

    by John Gatta ...
    Series series Environment and Society
    American nature writing characteristically embodies an appreciative, lyrical evocation of the natural world. But often, too, green-disposed authors have been moved to dramatize diverse, anthropogenic perils to environmental health. John Gatta freshly reveals how this dark yet graced and hopeful strain of environmental literature enlarges upon a jeremiad tradition of prophecy inherited from Puritan ... Read more

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  • Ecotheology in the Humanities

    An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding the Divine and Nature

    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    This book is a collection of essays about the interaction between God, humans, and nature in the context of the environmental challenges and Biblical studies. Chapters include topics on creation care and Sabbath, sacramental approaches to earth care, classical and medieval cosmologies, ecotheodicy, how we understand the problem of nonhuman suffering in a world controlled by a good God, ecojustice, ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Spirits of Place in American Literary Culture

    by John Gatta ...
    What might it mean, existentially and spiritually, for humans to form an intimate relation with particular sites or dwelling places on earth? In ancient Rome, the notion of a locale's genius loci signaled recognition of its enchanted, enspirited identity. But in a digitalized America of unprecedented mobility can place still matter as seed ground for the soul? Such questions have been broached by ... Read more

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  • The Universal Christ

    How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For, and Believe

    by Richard Rohr ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From one of the world’s most influential spiritual thinkers, a long-awaited book exploring what it means that Jesus was called “Christ,” and how this forgotten truth can restore hope and meaning to our lives.“Anyone who strives to put their faith into action will find encouragement and inspiration in the pages of this book.”—Melinda Gates**In his decades as a globally ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Great Wave

    Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan

    When the United States entered the Gilded Age after the Civil War, argues cultural historian Christopher Benfey, the nation lost its philosophical moorings and looked eastward to “Old Japan,” with its seemingly untouched indigenous culture, for balance and perspective. Japan, meanwhile, was trying to reinvent itself as a more cosmopolitan, modern state, ultimately transforming itself, in the ... Read more

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  • Promised Land

    Thirteen Books That Changed America

    by Jay Parini ...
    In this lively exploration of America’s intellectual heritage, acclaimed poet, novelist, and critic Jay Parini celebrates the life and times of thirteen books that helped shape the American psyche.Moving nimbly between the great watersheds in American letters—including Walden, Huckleberry Finn, The Souls of Black Folk, and On the Road—Parini demonstrates how these books entered American life and ... Read more

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