![]() ![]() “To put the matter starkly, nature is a cycle of sacrifice, and religion has often been no more than an attempt to reconcile us to this reality.”(52) But Hart rejects this view, seeing instead creation as imbued in every particle of its being with the glory, love and beauty of God. For both camps, the idea of impersonal causation is central. For modern theists or deists, creation is that of an absent God for atheists it is not creation at all, but an entirely natural system of cause and effect. But the Enlightenment also has played a role, desacrilising nature, making it simply a “thing,” or a fact. ![]() To some extent the church is responsible for this state of affairs since nature no longer can be deified. Hart begins the second chapter with a meditation on nature, which in the West, at least, has been disenchanted. ![]()
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