Notes

  1. . Walt Whitman, “Song of the Rolling Earth,” Leaves of Grass (New York: New American Library, 1960), p. 193.
  2. . CBS Evening News, WTVJ‐TV, Miami, Florida, July 16, 1980.
  3. . Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man (New York: Harper & Row, 1959), p. 29.
  4. . Alistair M.Taylor, “Evolution‐Revolution, General Systems Theory, and Society,” Philosophy Forum  , 11 (March 1972): 99–140.
  5. . Ervin Laszlo, A Strategy for the Future (New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1974), p. 7.
  6. . Ibid., p. 9.
  7. . Langdon Gilkey, Religion and the Scientific Future (New York: Harper & Row, 1970), p. 66.
  8. . Theodore Roszak, The Making of a Counter‐culture (Garden City, N.Y.: Double‐day & Co., 1969), p. 214.
  9. . See Conrad Cherry, “Two American Sacred Ceremonies, Their Implications for the Study of Religion in America,” American Quarterly, 21 (1969): 741–45, 748–53; reprinted in Frederick J. Streng, et al., Ways of Being Religious (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice‐Hall, Inc., 1973), pp. 132–37.
  10. 10 Ibid.
  11. . Alex Haley, Roots (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., 1976).
  12. . See James F. Smurl, Religious Ethics: A Systems Approach (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice‐Halls, Inc., 1972).
  13. . Laszlo (n. 5 above).
  14. . See Loren Eiseley, Darwin's Century (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., 1958).
  15. . Thomas Fawcett, The Symbolic Language of Religion (London: S.C.M. Press, 1970), p. 276.
  16. . Ibid., p. 276. An updated and far more refined description of human origins and destinies in a cosmic framework is to be found in the popular writings of the biologist Carl Sagan. By placing the human species more in continuity with basic physical and biological processes, Sagan is able to avoid the triumphalism of the conquest model here indicated. Despite this chastened revision, Sagan's rhetoric often shifts from informing the reader about recent scientific knowledge to counseling him to consider the human condition from the perspective of scientific wisdom and to act accordingly.
  17. . Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Science and Christ (New York: Harper & Row, 1968), p. 193.
  18. . Roger Schmidt, Exploring Religion (Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1980), p. 102.
  19. . See William W. Mountcastle, Jr., Religion in a Planetary Perspective (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1978).
  20. . Of course it should be recognized that the world is not autonomous. It is deemed valuable only insofar as it reflects the will, purpose, and power of the sacred. Furthermore, the themes are often ambiguous and misrepresentations occasionally occur. E.g., the message of the early chapters of the book of Genesis has been historically understood in the West to approve of mankind's unkind dominance of the natural world. This understanding has been called clearly into question by contemporary biblical scholarship.
  21. . Eric J.Chaisson, “Cosmic Evolution: A Synthesis of Matter and Life,” Zygon  14 (March 1979): 39.
  22. . See Psalm 139, esp. verses 13–18.
  23. . William James, Essays in Pragmatism (New York: Haffner Publishing Co., 1949), p. 83.
  24. . See John Ruskin Clark, The Great Living System (Pacific Grove, Calif.: Boxwood Press, 1977).
  25. . Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Divine Milieu (New York: Harper & Row, 1960), p. 112.
  26. . Abraham Heschel, Who Is Man? (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1965), p. 7.
  27. . Erich Jantsch, Design for Evolution (New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1975).
  28. . See René Dubos, A God Within (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1972).
  29. . Martin Buber, “I and Thou,” The Writings of Martin Buber, ed. Will Herberg (New York: Meridian Books, 1965), p. 49.
  30. . Olga Craven Huchingson, “Pragmatic Elements in the Moral Decision‐Making of the Christian Community: A Study in the Ethic of H. R. Niebuhr and Paul L. Lehmann”(Ph.D. diss., Emory University, 1980).
  31. . Rom. 12:5.
  32. . Arend Theodoor van Leeuwen, Christianity in World History (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1964), p. 177.
  33. . Rom. 8:38.