RST 340 - Creation Masters Series

It is urgent that the work of our age is to come into a new relationship with the natural world, so exhausted and abused by the demands of human kind. The ecological crisis, now at a critical stage, is essentially spiritual at root. Therefore, the task ahead of us will take tremendous religious awareness and spiritual commitment if we are to envision and then actualize a new sense of our human identity not against nature, but in communion with all the creatures and elements of the living Earth. This course will explore a variety of voices in the history of religions, with a special focus on Christian resources, who will guide us toward a vision of ecological wholeness. This course will take one or more masters or movements in religious cosmology under consideration each semester that it is taught. Examples include but are not limited to: Hildegard of Bingen, Celtic Creation Spirituality, the Benedictines, the Franciscans, Teilhard de Chardin, and Thomas Berry.
Lecture
Credits: 3
Offered in the Spring Semester