Being-in-Creation

Brian Treanor is Professor of Philosophy and Director of Environmental Studies at Loyola Marymount University. He is the author of Aspects of Alterity (Fordham, 2006) and Emplotting Virtue (SUNY Press, 2014), and the coeditor of A Passion for the Possible (Fordham University Press, 2010), Interpreting Nature (Fordham University Press, 2013), and Being-in-Creation (Fordham University Press, 2015). Current projects include the development of an "earthy" hermeneutics, and a monograph on the experience of joy.Bruce Ellis Benson is Distinguished Visiting Scholar in Philosophy, Loyola Marymount University.Norman Wirzba is Professor of Theology and Ecology at Duke University's Divinity School and Research Professor of Theology and Ecology at Duke's Nicholas School for the Environment. He is the author of The Paradise of God: Renewing Religion in an Ecological Age (Oxford University Press, 2007); Food and Faith: A Theology of Eating (Cambridge University Press, 2011); and, most recently (with Fred Bahnson), Making Peace with the Land: God's Call to Reconcile with Creation (IVP Books, 2012).

• Contents Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: The Human Place in the Natural World Brian Treanor 2. Creation, Creativity and Creatureliness Rowan Williams 3. Rowan Williams and Ecological Rationality Jarrod Longbons 4. The Art of Creaturely Life Norman Wirzba 5. Face of Nature, Gift of Creation Bruce Foltz 6. Creativity as Call to Care for Creation Christina M. Gschwandtner 7. Creature Discomforts Jeffrey Hanson 8. Reflections from Thoreau's Concord Ed Mooney 9. Creation and the Glory of Creatures Janet Martin Soskice 10. Care of the Soil, Care of the Self T. Wilson Dickenson 11. Dream Writing Beyond a Wounded World Susan Pyke Notes List of Contributors Index

"Being-in-Creation, edited by Benson, Treanor, and Wirzba is a well-conceived and beautifully-executed collection of essays on a vitally important topic. In a situation of acute ecological crisis, we require the resources of all of our philosophical, theological and religious traditions, including the rich veins opened up for us here by the contributors, to offer us new ways of thinking about and living in the world." -- -Clayton Crockett University of Central Arkansas "This is a marvelous collection of essays with immense creative potential. Indeed, Being-in-Creation is opening up the doors of continental philosophy to shape a rich ecological theology. A groundbreaking contribution!" -- -Mary Evelyn Tucker Yale University