Seeing God Everywhere: Essays on Nature and the SacredBarry McDonald World Wisdom, Inc, 2003 - 323 psl. This anthology, combining articles by Buddhist, Christian, Islamic, Jewish, and Native American scholar, looks at the environmental crisis through a spiritual lens. |
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Christianity and the Survival of Creation 333 | 53 |
The Spiritual and Religious Dimensions of | 73 |
Our Mother Earth | 103 |
Flower Viewing | 133 |
Of Metaphysics and Polynesian Navigation | 161 |
Hierophanic Nature | 193 |
Supreme Archetype of Aesthetic | 215 |
Creation the Image of God | 241 |
Becoming Part of It | 269 |
Acknowledgments | 297 |
Index | 311 |
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Absolute animal archetype Ash'arites aspect beauty become Blake Buddhist Christ Christian consciousness cosmic cosmos created creation creatures culture divine earth environmental crisis essence eternal everything existence experience expression fact flowers Frithjof Schuon garden God's harmony heaven Hildegard of Bingen holy human Ibn Arabî icon idea immanence infinite Islamic Joseph Epes Brown Kabbalah Kathleen Raine knowledge living London malkhuth manifestation material materialist matter means metaphysical mind modern mountains mystery Native American natural world ontological ourselves Perennial Philosophy philosophy physical point of view present principle pure qualities Qur'an reality relationship religion religious René Guénon ritual sacramental sacred scientific secular Sefiroth self-manifestation sense Seyyed Hossein Nasr shekhinah soul space speak spiritual substance Sufism symbolism Taoism theology theosophical things Thou tion Titus Burckhardt traditional transcendent trees truth ultimate understanding unity universe view of nature vision whole wisdom words world-view
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