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Jesus in Nature

A Monastic Christology

Jesus in Nature

A Monastic Christology

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£23.99

Publisher: Liturgical Press
ISBN: 9798400801686
Number of Pages: 234
Published: 22/08/2025
Width: 14 cm
Height: 21.6 cm
Encounter enlightening and engaging views of monastic love for God’s creation.   
 
In Jesus in Nature, Samuel Torvend uncovers the hidden story of monastic reflection on the presence of Jesus Christ in creation. With frequent references to contemporary life, he offers a comprehensive view of Jesus in his natural world and the various ways in which early medieval monastics discerned the presence of the risen Christ in nature’s seasons, in flora and fauna, and in the pulsating energy that gives life to all things.
 
For Christians who care for our common home, the earth, Torvend offers groundbreaking and enlightening views of monastic love for God’s first gift, the creation, and presents wisdom for living today in a world that needs thoughtful persons of faith who are friends of the earth and its many creatures. In this book, readers are invited to engage the Book of Nature and the Book of Scripture and thus further their conversation between faith and science.

Contents
Introduction     ix
          Part One
1   The Ecology of Jesus’ Homeland   3
2   Jesus in the Natural World   35
          Part Two
3   Benedict of Nursia: Prefer Nothing to the Love of Christ   71
4   The Venerable Bede: A Sun to Illuminate the Whole Earth   97
5   Walafrid Strabo: God’s Gardener   123
6   Hildegard of Bingen: Witness to Christ’s Verdant Energy in the World   145
7   Monastic Mentors   169
Bibliography   189
Index   209

Samuel Torvend

Samuel Torvend, PhD, is a priest, oblate of St. Benedict, and emeritus professor of church history. He is the author of Still Hungry at the Feast: Eucharistic Justice in the Midst of Affliction and Monastic Ecological Wisdom: A Living Tradition, published by Liturgical Press.