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Book Review: The Blue Sapphire of the Mind: Notes for a Contemplative Ecology

Book Review: The Blue Sapphire of the Mind: Notes for a Contemplative Ecology ATR/97.1 Book Reviews 139 The Blue Sapphire of the Mind: Notes for a Contemplative Ecology. By Douglas E. Christie. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. xv + 431 pp. $29.95 (cloth). As the former country girl George Eliot once remarked, “To make men moral something more is requisite than to turn them out to grass.” In the current ecological crisis of our planet, questions of epistemology have arisen in the literature of nature and spirituality from the economics of Malcolm Young to philosophy of beauty in Kathryn Alexander. In this eloquent and very personal contribution, Douglas Christie unites his passion for the an- cient desert monks with his contemporary love of and grief for the natural world in a “contemplative ecology.” He argues that “the contemplative tra- dition can be seen as deeply sympathetic to a strain of thought within eco- logical literature and poetry that places great value on the place of noticing, describing, and feeling the simple pleasure of the physical world for its own sake.” Christie goes on to suggest that while the practice of this awareness alone may not be enough “to help us redress the pernicious effects of our utilitarian and acquisitive culture, the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Anglican Theological Review SAGE

Book Review: The Blue Sapphire of the Mind: Notes for a Contemplative Ecology

Lyman, Rebecca
Anglican Theological Review , Volume 97 (1): 1 – Aug 16, 2021
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ATR/97.1 Book Reviews 139 The Blue Sapphire of the Mind: Notes for a Contemplative Ecology. By Douglas E. Christie. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. xv + 431 pp. $29.95 (cloth). As the former country girl George Eliot once remarked, “To make men moral something more is requisite than to turn them out to grass.” In the current ecological crisis of our planet, questions of epistemology have arisen in the literature of nature and spirituality from the economics of Malcolm Young to philosophy of beauty in Kathryn Alexander. In this eloquent and very personal contribution, Douglas Christie unites his passion for the an- cient desert monks with his contemporary love of and grief for the natural world in a “contemplative ecology.” He argues that “the contemplative tra- dition can be seen as deeply sympathetic to a strain of thought within eco- logical literature and poetry that places great value on the place of noticing, describing, and feeling the simple pleasure of the physical world for its own sake.” Christie goes on to suggest that while the practice of this awareness alone may not be enough “to help us redress the pernicious effects of our utilitarian and acquisitive culture, the

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