Goddess as Nature: Towards a Philosophical Thealogy by Paul Reid-Bowen
By Paul Reid-Bowen
Goddess as Nature makes an important contribution to elucidating the which means of a feminine and feminist deity before everything of the twenty-first century. Bridging the space among the emergent spiritual discourse of thealogy - discourse concerning the Goddess - and more than a few analytical issues within the philosophy of faith, the writer argues that thealogy isn't as incoherent as a lot of its critics declare. by means of constructing a detailed studying of the reality-claims embedded inside of quite a number thealogical texts, one could determine an ecological and pantheistic suggestion of deity and fact that's metaphysically novel and short of confident philosophical, thealogical and scholarly engagement. Philosophical thealogy is, in an age eager about re-conceiving nature by way of corporation, chaos, complexity, ecological networks and organicism, either an energetic danger and a remarkably useful educational, feminist and non secular endeavour.
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