A Catechism of Nature
Meditations on Creation’s Primary Realities
- Publisher: Wipf and Stock
- Published: 2021
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Publisher's Description
This book considers the problem of ecological degradation from the perspective of a Christian clergyman and hunter. Drawing on the tradition of Christian mysticism, the author offers a series of meditations on various aspects of the natural world, including oceans and prairies, weather patterns, the changing of seasons, animal and plant communities, and the ways humans engage with them. He sees the intellectual and spiritual roots of the modern ecological crisis in a turn of thought coming from the Enlightenment that makes the value of the natural world a function of its utility, and he offers a way out that is centered in prayer and humility.
Endorsements (1)
“It isn't often one gets to savor a sharp theological mind reflecting on nature from intimate knowledge rather than from only casual acquaintance. Fr. Will possesses not only a formidable grasp of doctrine and philosophy, but also the grounded love of a keen outdoorsman. Follow him through the countryside of Texas, Georgia, and Africa, and you’ll be inspired by his ecological vision of Christianity almost even more than you’ll delight in him.”
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