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Beautiful interrelation with nature
Edwards, L. Clifton
Edwards, L. Clifton
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Paul Tillich
environment
theology
ecological science
environment
theology
ecological science
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Religious ethics
Environmental ethics
Global Church History and World Christianity
20th century
Dogmatics
Environmental ethics
Global Church History and World Christianity
20th century
Dogmatics
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"A powerful connection exists between natural beauty and the way in which human beings interact with the natural environment. For as we interact with nature, we not only perceive her beauty, but we must live our lives in and amongst it. Such interaction, says environmental philosopher, Holmes Rolston, is the substance of environmental aesthetics: “the beauty of life in dialectic with its environment, the landscape as a place of . . . satisfying adapted fit.”1 Rolston emphasizes ecological science, but ecology2 intertwines with the arts because art also fits humanity into an environment, such as through architecture and landscape painting. An ecological-artistic approach to environment relates to Paul Tillich’s theological approach: for him a human worldview expresses itself symbolically in relation to an environment, revealing something about both the world and humankind in their encounter. As a result of this encounter, the environment achieves a theological significance"
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2011
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