Abstract

This fresh approach to ecological issues argues that there are important connections between the personal alienations inherited from critical philosophy and the cosmic alienation we call -the environmental crisis.- Rooted in the historical development of modern attitudes to nature, this study breaks new ground by applying a post-critical perspective to western views of God, humanity, and the natural world. Using the thought of Michael Polanyi, Wendell Berry, Wilfrid Cantwell Smith and William Poteat, it points a way out of our abuse of the earth through a renewing of incarnate life, in which our minds are no longer separated from the natural bodies they express."