The world we have lost
Gustave Courbet records a vanishing way of peasant life in Girl Screening Grain (1854)
photo: Alamy/Peter Horree
Ask any modern Christian if they experience God’s immanence in Creation and they will probably say Yes.
Yes, nature is more than mere matter – soil and trees, leaves and flowers – it is also a world lovingly made by a Creator who continues to breathe through the turning of the seasons, the cycle of growth and decay. However, it is also true that our sense of nature’s divinity has been slowly eroding for centuries. Our alienation from the landscape is one of the defining features of modernity. Can we really say that we believe in the divinity of nature when our relationship with it has been so reduced?
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