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Ancient Christian Ecopoetics - Cosmologies, Saints, Things (Hardcover)
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Ancient Christian Ecopoetics - Cosmologies, Saints, Things (Hardcover)
Series: Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
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In our age of ecological crisis, what insights-if any-can we expect
to find by looking to our past? Perhaps, suggests Virginia Burrus,
early Christianity might yield usable insights. Turning aside from
the familiar specter of Christianity's human-centered theology of
dominion, Burrus directs our attention to aspects of ancient
Christian thought and practice that remain strange and alien. Drawn
to excess and transgression, in search of transformation, early
Christians creatively reimagined the universe and the human,
cultivating relationships with a wide range of other beings-animal,
vegetable, and mineral; angelic and demonic; divine and earthly;
large and small. In Ancient Christian Ecopoetics, Burrus
facilitates a provocative encounter between early Christian
theology and contemporary ecological thought. In the first section,
she explores how the mysterious figure of khora, drawn from Plato's
Timaeus, haunts Christian and Jewish accounts of a creation
envisioned as varyingly monstrous, unstable, and unknowable. In the
second section, she explores how hagiographical literature queers
notions of nature and places the very category of the human into
question, in part by foregrounding the saint's animality, in part
by writing the saint into the landscape. The third section
considers material objects, as small as portable relics and icons,
as large as church and monastery complexes. Ancient Christians
considered all of these animate beings, simultaneously powerful and
vulnerable, protective and in need of protection, lovable and
loving. Viewed through the shifting lenses of an ancient
ecopoetics, Burrus demonstrates how humans both loomed large and
shrank to invisibility, absorbed in the rapture of a strange and
animate ecology.
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