Whitney Bauman is Assistant Professor of Religion and Science at Florida International University. He is the Assistant Editor for the forthcoming The Berkshire Encyclopedia for Sustainability: The Spirit of Sustainability (Berkshire, 2009).

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Points of Departure 1. A Genealogy of the Christian Colonial Mindset: Ex Nihilo from Disputed Beginnings to Orthodox Origins 2. Ex Nihilo and the Origin of an Empire 3. Ex Nihilo, Erasure and "Discovery" 4. The Cogito, Ex Nihilo, and the Legacy of John Locke 5. The Creation Ex Nihilo of Terra Nullius Lands: Omnipotent Nations and the Logic of Global- Colonization 6. From Epistemologies of Domination to Grounded Thinking 7. Opening Words about God onto Creatio Continua 8. Creatio Continua ‘All The Way Down’: A Post-Colonial, Planetary Understanding of Continuing Creation Conclusion: A Brief Thought After Notes Bibliography Index

Whitney Bauman is Assistant Professor of Religion and Science at Florida International University. He is the Assistant Editor for the forthcoming The Berkshire Encyclopedia for Sustainability: The Spirit of Sustainability (Berkshire, 2009).

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Points of Departure 1. A Genealogy of the Christian Colonial Mindset: Ex Nihilo from Disputed Beginnings to Orthodox Origins 2. Ex Nihilo and the Origin of an Empire 3. Ex Nihilo, Erasure and "Discovery" 4. The Cogito, Ex Nihilo, and the Legacy of John Locke 5. The Creation Ex Nihilo of Terra Nullius Lands: Omnipotent Nations and the Logic of Global- Colonization 6. From Epistemologies of Domination to Grounded Thinking 7. Opening Words about God onto Creatio Continua 8. Creatio Continua ‘All The Way Down’: A Post-Colonial, Planetary Understanding of Continuing Creation Conclusion: A Brief Thought After Notes Bibliography Index

Whitney Bauman is Assistant Professor of Religion and Science at Florida International University. He is the Assistant Editor for the forthcoming The Berkshire Encyclopedia for Sustainability: The Spirit of Sustainability (Berkshire, 2009).

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Points of Departure 1. A Genealogy of the Christian Colonial Mindset: Ex Nihilo from Disputed Beginnings to Orthodox Origins 2. Ex Nihilo and the Origin of an Empire 3. Ex Nihilo, Erasure and "Discovery" 4. The Cogito, Ex Nihilo, and the Legacy of John Locke 5. The Creation Ex Nihilo of Terra Nullius Lands: Omnipotent Nations and the Logic of Global- Colonization 6. From Epistemologies of Domination to Grounded Thinking 7. Opening Words about God onto Creatio Continua 8. Creatio Continua ‘All The Way Down’: A Post-Colonial, Planetary Understanding of Continuing Creation Conclusion: A Brief Thought After Notes Bibliography Index