The Garden of God: A Theological Cosmology

For Garcia-Rivera our spiritual life with God is less about building the City of God than creating the Garden of God. The Garden of God takes Christ's self-revelation that he came to bring us life and "life abundant" as a clue to that enduring, habitable world. The Garden of God offers new insights into the question of evil and suffering, the doctrine of the resurrection of the flesh, the nature of matter and of spirit, the Incarnation, the role of the Holy Spirit in creation.

Alejandro Garca-Rivera is Professor of Systematic Theology, Jesuit School of Theology, Berkeley. An award-winning writer, his books include Living Beauty: The Art of Liturgy (with Tom Scirghi, s.j., 2007), A Wounded Innocence: Sketches for a Theology of Art 2003), and Saint Martin de Porres: The Little Stories and the Semiotics of Culture (1995).

Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
At Home in the cosmos	p. 1
What Is a Theological Cosmology?	p. 5
The Rising Call for a Theological Cosmology	p. 6
Outline for a Theological Cosmology	p. 10
A Theological Cosmology	p. 21
The Human Phenomenon: Teilhard de Chardin's New Significance	p. 23
Complexity, Interiority, Christology and the Cosmos	p. 25
The Relationship of the Human and the Cosmos	p. 29
The Christ	p. 38
Where Is Jesus Now?	p. 42
Theological Aesthetics	p. 46
Summing Up	p. 50
Heaven and Earth	p. 53
Is Nature or Theology Enough?	p. 54
The Need for Salvation	p. 61
The Ascension	p. 64
Whatever Happened to Place?	p. 65
A Place for the Invisible	p. 70
At Home in the Cosmos Again	p. 72
What Is Home?	p. 74
Endless Forms Most Beautiful	p. 81
Beauty in the Living World	p. 82
Toward a New Understanding of Form	p. 86
The Entangled Bank	p. 89
Beauty and the Deep	p. 93
The Garden of God: Toward a Theological Cosmology	p. 105
Where Heaven and Earth Intersect	p. 110
Beauty, Ever Ancient, Ever New	p. 114
A Garden Trail	p. 119
The Tragic Choice	p. 120
In Search of Eden	p. 123
A Disciplined Spiritual Technology	p. 126
The Garden of God	p. 130
Notes	p. 133
Index	p. 153
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