{"product_id":"a-theology-of-creation-ecology-art-and-laudato-si-catholic-ideas-for-a-secular-world-9780268205621","title":"A Theology of Creation: Ecology  Art  and Laudato Si' (Catholic Ideas for a Secular World)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book provides the first sustained philosophical treatment of Pope Franciss Laudato Si and articulates a theology of creation to recover our place within the cosmos. In the encyclical Laudato Si  Pope Francis discerns beneath the imminent threat of ecological catastrophe an existential affliction of the human person  who is lost in the cosmos  increasingly alienated from self  others  nature  and God. Pope Francis suggests that one must reimagine humanitys place in the created cosmos. In this ambitious and distinctive contribution to theological aesthetics  Thomas S. Hibbs provides the basis for just such a recovery  working from Laudato Si to develop a philosophical and theological diagnosis of our ecological dislocation  a narrative account of the sources of the crisis  and a vision of the way forward. Through a critical engagement with the artistic theory of Jacques Maritain  Hibbs shows how certain strains of modern art both capture our alienation and anticipate visions of recovered harmony among persons  nature  and God. In the second half of the book  in an attempt to fulfill Pope Franciss plea for an aesthetic education and to apply and test Maritains theory  Hibbs examines the work of poets and painters. He analyzes the work of poets Robinson Jeffers and William Everson  and considers painters Georges Roualt  a friend to Maritain  and Makoto Fujimura  whose notion of culture care overlaps in suggestive ways with Franciss notion of integral ecology. Throughout this tour de force  Hibbs calls for a commitment to an ecological poetics  a project that responds to the crisis of our times by taking poets and painters as seriously as philosophers and theologians.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647237546037,"sku":"ByrdShop_0268205620","price":78.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780268205621.jpg?v=1781690417","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/a-theology-of-creation-ecology-art-and-laudato-si-catholic-ideas-for-a-secular-world-9780268205621","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}