God's bounty? the churches and the natural world : papers read at the 2008 Summer Meeting and the 2009 Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society. - Clarke, Peter; Claydon, Tony; Ecclesiastical History Society summer meeting Galway 2008; Ecclesiastical History Society winter meeting Galway 2009 (Woodbridge Boydell, 2010)
Forming the saeculum: the desacralization of nature and the ability to understand it in Augustine's Literal commentary on Genesis / Stanley P. Rosenberg -- Plenty, portents and plague: Ecclesiastical readings of the natural world in early Medieval Europe / Sarah Foot -- A saint and the natural world: a motif of obedience in three early Anglo-Saxon saints' lives / Olga Gusakova -- 'Bless, O Lord, this fruit of the new trees': liturgy and nature in England in the Central Middle Ages / Tamsin Rowe -- God's bounty, Pauperes and the Crusades of 1096 and 1147 / Conor Kostick -- Birds, beasts and Becket: falconry and hawking in the lives and miracles of St Thomas Becket / Gesine Oppitz-Trotman -- Cathars and the material world / Peter Biller -- Subiaco: Innocent III's version of Elijah's cave / Brenda Bolton -- Payback time?: tithes and tithing in Late Medieval England / R.N. Swanson -- Devotion, popular belief and sympathetic magic among Renaissance Italian women: the Rose of Jericho as birthing aid / Suzy Knight -- What did natural history have to do with salvation?: José de Acosta SJ (1540-1600) in the Americas / Simon Ditchfield -- Footprints and faith: religion and the landscape in early modern Britain and Ireland / Alexandra Walsham -- Nature, music and the Reformation in England / Jonathan Willis -- The 'wonders of the deep' and the 'mighty tempest of the sea': nature, Providence and the English seafarers' piety, c. 1580-1640 / Sarah Parsons -- The sea and souls: maritime votive practices in Counter-Reformation Brittany, 1500-1750 / Elizabeth Tingle -- Devotional landscapes: God, saints and the natural world in early modern Ireland / Raymond Gillespie -- Nature's scourges: the natural world and special prayers, fasts and Thanksgivings, 1541-1866 / Alasdair Raffe -- 'The miraculous mathematics of the world': proving the existence of God in Cardinal Péter Pázmány's Kalauz / Tadhg Ó Hannrachain -- 'God hath put such secretes in nature': the Reformed Kirk, church-building and the religious landscape in early modern Scotland / Andrew Spicer -- Nature, history and the search for order: the Boyle lectures, 1730-1785 / Robert G. Ingram -- Australian Anglican clergymen, science and religion, 1820-1850 / Michael Gladwin -- The mountain and the flower: the power and potential of nature in the world of Victorian Evangelicalism / Mark Smith -- Frances Ridley Havergal's Theology of nature -- Andrew Atherstone -- Darwin's church / Paul White -- William Paley, Samuel Wilberforce, Charles Darwin and the Natural World: an Angelican conversation / Keith A. Francis -- Nature and modernity: J.C. Atkinson and rural ministry in England, c. 1850-1900 (presidential address) / William Sheils -- Heavens on Earth: Christian utopias in nineteenth- and twentieth-century America / Christopher Clark -- Methodism, science and the thought of Herbert Butterfield / Michael Bentley -- Which nature? Whose justice?: shifting meaning of nature in recent ecotheology / Peter Manley Scott.
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