Wonder Opens the Heart: Pope Francis and Lisa Sideris on Nature, Encounter, and Wonder

This article argues that Pope Francis's invocations of wonder can speak to and at times challenge Lisa Sideris's recent contributions to the interdisciplinary discussion of wonder, science, and religion. Although the importance of wonder to Pope Francis's 2015 environmental encyclical...

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Published in:Zygon
Main Author: McGuigan, Colin (Author)
Contributors: Sideris, Lisa H. 1965- (Bibliographic antecedent)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: Open Library of Humanities$s2024- [2019]
In: Zygon
Review of:Consecrating science (Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2017) (McGuigan, Colin)
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Sideris, Lisa H. 1965- / Miracle / Nature / Meeting / Francis Pope 1936-
Further subjects:B Nature
B Book review
B Pope Francis
B theology and science
B Encounter
B Lisa Sideris
B Wonder
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Summary:This article argues that Pope Francis's invocations of wonder can speak to and at times challenge Lisa Sideris's recent contributions to the interdisciplinary discussion of wonder, science, and religion. Although the importance of wonder to Pope Francis's 2015 environmental encyclical Laudato si' is acknowledged, it has not been widely recognized that wonder is implicated in and forms connections between multiple concepts and postures acknowledged as defining marks of Francis's papacy: coming out of oneself, encountering others, going to the margins; aversion to doctrinal rigidity; compassion, mercy, tenderness, and humility; to name a few. These defining concepts and stances resonate strongly with certain views on wonder, ethics, and ecology recently articulated by Lisa Sideris. In Francis, however, one finds a more affirming treatment of science-based wonder and a response to Sideris's criticism of theistic wonder.
ISSN:1467-9744
Reference:Kritik in "Wonder Sustained (2019)"
Contains:Enthalten in: Zygon
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/zygo.12511