Friends and the world of nature

by O. Theodor Benfey

Pamphlet, 1980

Status

Available

Call number

CP 233/1

Publication

[Wallingford, Pa. : Pendle Hill, c1980.]

ISBN

0875742335 / 9780875742335

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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
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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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