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The Glory of the Cosmos
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Thomistic ecology Creation and contemplation Laudato Si’ Romano Guardini Arouca Press
This is a book about the created world as Catholics should see it: real, ordered, good, charged with divine intelligibility, and neither a god nor a machine.
St. Thomas Aquinas · natural things · hierarchy · culture · Scripture · beauty · technocracy
✠ OVERVIEW ✠In recent years controversy over the Catholic Church's stance on environmentalism has increased. In order to avoid the errors promoted by some environmentalists—sometimes even going as far as a revived paganism—some Catholics have embraced a point of view rooted ultimately in deism or Cartesian philosophy. This book seeks to explore the question from the standpoint of authentic Catholic theology and philosophy, the theology and philosophy of the Angelic Doctor, St. Thomas Aquinas.
Readers, regardless of their ideology, will be challenged to rethink their positions, to look beyond the political strife of our time and engage with the timeless teaching of the Church. Contributions by: Thomas Storck ∙ Pater Edmund Waldstein ∙ Michael Storck ∙ Susan Waldstein ∙ Christopher Shannon ∙ Christopher Zehnder ∙ David Clayton ∙ Peter Kwasniewski
From the introduction
“God is in all things and most intimately.”
Thomas Storck invokes St. Thomas Aquinas to recover a Catholic vision of creation against both mechanistic deism and revived paganism.
❦ THE CATHOLIC MIDDLE WAY ❦Not raw material
Creation is not merely inert stuff for manipulation, profit, or pleasure.
Not divinity
The natural world is not God; it is the good work of God and reflects His wisdom.
Against technocracy
The essays confront the Cartesian reduction of nature to what can be measured, mastered, and exploited.
Toward contemplation
The Catholic response begins in seeing: receiving creation as ordered, meaningful, and beautiful.
✶ ✠ ✶The book’s intellectual center is the Thomistic conviction that created beings possess their own natural integrity, intelligibility, and goodness because they proceed from the divine wisdom.
❦ CONTRIBUTORS ❦Thomas Storck Pater Edmund Waldstein Michael Storck Susan Waldstein Christopher Shannon Christopher Zehnder David Clayton Peter Kwasniewski✦ QUESTIONS THE BOOK RAISES ✦How can Catholics avoid both ecological indifference and paganized environmentalism?
What does St. Thomas Aquinas teach us about the goodness and intelligibility of created things?
Why does a mechanistic view of nature lead to cultural, economic, and spiritual disorder?
How can a Catholic vision of creation shape agriculture, technology, art, liturgy, economics, and daily life?
❦ REVIEWS & ARTICLES ❦Read more about the book and its contribution to Catholic thought on creation and ecology:
✦ BOOK DETAILS ✦Title
The Glory of the Cosmos
Subtitle
A Catholic Approach to the Natural World
Editor
Thomas Storck
Paperback ISBN
978-1-989905-26-5
Hardcover ISBN
978-1-989905-27-2
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Introduction 9 chapters Epilogue Contributors Catholic creation theology
The contents move from first principles to applications: natural things, animal life, hierarchy, culture, catechesis, Scripture, numerical beauty, biotechnology, and the technocratic paradigm.
creation contemplated · nature understood · culture purified · technology judged
✠ OPENING MATTER ✠Introduction
Introduction
Thomas Storck
ix
❦ CHAPTERS ❦Chapter 1 · p. 1
What are Natural Things?
Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist.
Chapter 2 · p. 19
Brother Wolf or Robo-Dog? Are Animals Just Computers?
Michael Hector Storck
Chapter 3 · p. 35
Hierarchy in a New Natural Science
Susan Waldstein
Chapter 4 · p. 53
Nature and Culture in Catholic Environmentalism: Romano Guardini’s Letters from Lake Como
Christopher Shannon
Chapter 5 · p. 63
Catholicism and the Natural World: Commentary on the Catechism of the Catholic Church, nos. 337–344 and 2415–2418
Thomas Storck
Chapter 6 · p. 79
Man and Cosmos: What Scripture Shows Us About the Dignity of All Creation
Christopher Zehnder
Chapter 7 · p. 87
The Numerical Pattern of the Cosmos and Divine Beauty in Christian Culture
David Clayton
Chapter 8 · p. 111
Genetically Modified Organisms: A Catholic’s Animadversions
Peter Kwasniewski
Chapter 9 · p. 129
Laudato Si’ and the Critique of the Technocratic Paradigm
Thomas Storck
✦ EPILOGUE & CONTRIBUTORS ✦Epilogue
Listening with an Attentive Ear to God’s Poetry
Peter Kwasniewski
139
Back matter
About the Contributors
151
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Contemplation Thomistic ecology Laudato Si´ Guardini and Aquinas Catholic tradition
The praise for this volume converges on a single point: The Glory of the Cosmos is not a fashionable environmental book, but a Catholic recovery of creation as gift, order, beauty, and sign.
creation · liturgy · economy · Scripture · technology · philosophy · agriculture · theology
✠ ENDORSEMENTS ✠❦ WHAT THE PRAISE EMPHASIZES ❦Contemplation
The book calls readers to behold creation in the light of the Lord of Creation.
Thomistic foundation
The endorsements stress the importance of Aquinas and modern Thomist thought for Catholic ecology.
Against technocracy
The volume is praised for confronting the Cartesian project of mastery over nature.
Wide application
The praise highlights the book’s reach across liturgy, economy, Scripture, technology, philosophy, agriculture, and theology.
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