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Tables of Contents for Super, Natural Christians
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
1
4
1. Super, Natural Christians
5
21
Supernatural vs. Super, Natural Christians
5
4
Christian Nature Spirituality
9
17
Spirituality
10
2
Christian
12
4
Nature
16
10
2. Consider the Lilies of the Field: How Should Christians Love Nature?
26
19
Paying Attention
26
4
Two Ways of Seeing the World
30
2
The Arrogant Eye vs. the Loving Eye
32
4
The Subject-Subjects Model
36
3
Care or Rights?
39
2
Map or Hike?
41
4
3. Christians and Nature: Past and Present
45
22
Is Nature like Us?
46
3
Medieval vs. Ecological Relationality
49
4
The Medieval Picture
53
6
The Present: Our Loss of Nature
59
8
4. The Arrogant Eye: Knowing Nature as Object
67
24
Nature: Landscape or Maze?
67
4
Knowledge: The Eye of the Mind
71
7
Sight as Mirror of Nature
71
3
Sight as Light of Reason: Plato and Descartes
74
4
Nature: The Mirror of the Mind
78
13
Perspective, the Nude, and Landscape Sight
78
4
The Eye of the Camera: Scopophilia
82
6
Dualism and the Arrogant Eye
88
3
5. The Loving Eye: Knowing Nature as Subject
91
27
In Touch with the Others: A Radical Suggestion
91
6
Our Primary Sense: Touch
93
2
Constructing the Subject-Subjects Model
95
2
Being and Knowing: The Ecological Model
97
10
Some Preliminary Reflections
97
3
A Case Study: Buber's I-Thou
100
3
Marks of the Ecological Model
103
4
The Subject-Subjects Model and Nature
107
5
The Loving Eye
112
6
6. Down to Earth: Close Encounters with the Natural World
118
32
Do Touch: Experience, Place, Wildness
120
9
Nature Writing: Mediating the Second Naivete
129
8
Passing Over to the Other: The Nature of Nature Writing
129
5
Science and Aesthetics: Two Ways to Educate the Loving Eye
134
3
Geography vs. Autobiography: Three Examples of Nature Writing
137
10
Sharon Butala
137
3
Sue Hubbell
140
3
Annie Dillard
143
4
Halting the Extinction of Experience
147
3
7. Caring for the Others
150
26
The Ecological Model and the Community of Care
152
12
An Ethic of Care
153
2
Care and Justice
155
3
Case Studies in Care: Wilderness or Garden?
158
4
Care and the Social Self
162
2
The Ecological Model and Christian Spirituality
164
12
Extending Christian Love to Nature
164
4
Deepening the Subject-Subjects Model
168
4
Horizontal Christian Sacramentalism
172
4
Epilogue
176
3
Notes
179
26
Index
205