Table of contents for God's book of works : the nature and theology of nature / R.J. Berry ; illustrations by John Busby.

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Preface                                                    xi

1    Design and Deity                                  3
     Extinctions, Fossils and Floods                   4
     The Achilles Heel of Natural Theology             6
     A Blind Watchmaker                                9
     Whither Natural Theology?                             11
     Conflicts between Science and Religion                14

2    The Nature and Practice of Science                   21
     God, Providence and Complementarity                  25
     Criteria for Complementarity                         28
     The Two Books of God                                 32

3    1543 and All That                                    37
     Ancient Times                                        38
     Commodification and Commercialisation                44
     The Study of Nature                                  51
     Darwin and Divinity                                  52
     Dissent about Evolution                              55

4    Theology of DNA                                      63
     Genetics and Epigenetics                             64
     Genes and Morals                                     67
     Genes, Character and Talents                         70
     The Nature of Human-ness                             70
     Imago Dei                                            75
     Genetic Engineering                                  76

5    Green Religion                                       83
     Dominion and Devastation                             83
     Environmentally Friendly Religion                    88
     Disenchantment and Alternatives                      90
     A Sharing and Suffering God                          93
     Ecofeminism                                          98
     Metaphysical Reconstruction                         103






6    Green Science                                       109
     The Balance of Nature                               109
     Patterns in Nature                                  112
     Coevolution                                         114
     Towards an Ecological Synthesis                     116
     Gaia                                                118
     The 'New' Physics                                   123
     Naturalism - or More?                               125

7    Running Out of World                                131
     Carrying Capacity                                   133
     Population, Pollution and Responsibility         136
     Environmental Awareness                             138
     From Local to Global                                142
     Values and Valuations                               146
     Money, Quality of Life and the Environment       151
     Constraints and Attitudes: Two Examples             153

8    Governments and Greens                              163
     Environmental Pessimism                             164
     Environmental Ethics and the Rights of Nature    166
     Environmental Stakeholders                          171
     Our Common Future                                   174
     A Global Ethic                                      178

9    Convergence and Stewardship                         183
     Stewardship                                         183
     Environmental Philosophy                            187
     Convergence                                         189
     A Code of Environmental Practice                    191
     The International Covenant on Environment and
     Development                                         192
     Religion and the Environment                        196

10   Awe and Wonders                                     203
     Whence Awe?                                         206
     Environmental Filters                               209
     Wilderness                                          210
     Re-divinisation                                     216
     Bible Wisdom                                        219
     Awe and Stewardship                                 221





11   Science and the cross                              225
     Homo divinus                                       227
     Accepting Change                                   232
     The Argument - So Far                              234

12   Redemption - and Hope                              243
     Theology - the Study of God Not Forgetting Man     246

Boxes
     Box 1 - Ten Premises for Sustainable Living        194
     Box 2 - Shallow and Deep Ecology Compared          218

References                                             251
Index of Names                                          269
Index of Scriptural References                          276
Index of Subjects                                       278