Pendle Hill Pamphlets Friends and the World of Nature
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Publication
Authors
Category
Gardening & Nature
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Publication Year
1980
Publisher
Pendle Hill, United States
Volume
233
Pages
28
Subject
Nature
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Abstract
This interesting pamphlet situates our attitude to the natural world in a history of ideas. It describes the 17th century mystical approach to nature found in Quakerism and Neo-Platonism, of nature as a manifestation of the divine. This encompasses love for nature, which Benfey sees as essential to a new relationship with nature. The new way of seeing the natural world must be informed not only by science but also by this kind of theology of the heart. This pamphlet could be especially interesting to those thinking about the spirituality of environmental consciousness.
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