Nature's Transcendence and Immanence

A Comparative Interdisciplinary Ecstatic Naturalism

Foreword by Robert S. Corrington Contributions by Austin Roberts, Rory McEntee, Rose Ellen Dunn, Wade Mitchell, Nicholas Guardiano, Leon Niemoczynski, Elaine Padilla, Thomas Millary, Jea Sophia Oh, Iljoon Park, Hiheon Kim Edited by Jea Sophia Oh, Marilynn Lawrence

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Publication date:

22 December 2017

Length of book:

192 pages

Publisher

Lexington Books

ISBN-13: 9781498562768

What does it mean for nature to be sacred? Is anything supernatural or even unnatural? Nature’s Transcendence and Immanence: A Comparative Interdisciplinary Ecstatic Naturalism discusses nature’s divinizing process of unfolding and folding through East-West dialogues and interdisciplinary methodologies. Nature’s selving/god-ing processes are the sacred that is revealed as nature’s transcendent and immanent dimensions. Each chapter of Nature’s Transcendence and Immanence: A Comparative Interdisciplinary Ecstatic Naturalism shares a part of nature’s sacred folds that are complexes within nature that have unusual semiotic density. These discussions serve to help restore a better relationship to nature as a whole through an innovative combination of research and ideas from a variety of traditions and disciplines. This collection not only introduces ecstatic naturalism and deep pantheism as sacred practices of philosophy and theology, but also invites a broader audience from a wide range of academic disciplines such as neuro-psychoanalysis, aesthetics, mythology, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence (AI).

Foreword by Robert S. Corrington
An Introduction—Marilynn Lawrence with Jea Sophia Oh
I. Between Immanence and Transcendence of Nature
1. Chaosmic Naturalisms: Cosmological Immanence, Multiplicity and Divinity in Corrington and Faber—Austin Roberts
2. Trinitarian Nature? Tehom, Word and Spirit: A Constructive and Contemplative Journey Through Pannikar, Tillich, and Corrington—Rory McEntee
3. Wild Air: Toward a Poetics of Ecstatic Naturalism—Rose Ellen Dunn
II. Nature’s Semiosis and Unconscious
4. Driven from the Bottomless Lake of Consciousness: Neuropsychoanalysis, Peirce, and an Ecstatic Naturalism—Wade A. Mitchell
5. Groundwork for a Transcendentalist Semeiotics of Nature—Nicholas L. Guardiano
6. The Meaning of Nature: Toward a Philosophical Ecology—Leon Niemoczynski
7. Landscapes of the Unconscious and the Longings of Nature—Elaine Padilla
III. Nature’s Plurality and Hybridity
8. Mystical Pluralism: James, Blood, and the Experience of Ecstatic Nature—Thomas Millary
9. Vulnerable Transcendence of Nature: A Naturalistic Reading of Hybridity, Beginning, and Colliding in Chinese Creation Mythology—Jea Sophia Oh
10. A Post-Naturalist Idea of Ec-stacy: An East-West Dialogue in a Post-Human Age—Iljoon Park
11. Daseok’s God in Dialogue with Deep Pantheism and Process Panentheism—Hiheon Kim
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About the Contributors

Robert S. Corrington’s “Ecstatic Naturalism” is an important philosophical manifesto for our time. It combines American and Continental philosophy, semiotics, psychoanalysis, art, and other motifs into a rich blend of philosophical and religious wisdom—all focused on the mysterious processes of nature as these relate to human life. The authors of this edited collection focus on Ecstatic Naturalism from a variety of insightful directions, both appreciative and critical, and help in this way to bring its fascinating facets and challenging possibilities into view.