The Translucence of the Eternal. Religious Understandings of the Natural Order

The article starts from the realization that the responses given to the global ecological crisis do not go to the root, the erroneous vision, beliefs and values ​​of modernity. That is why it explores the general principles that inform the understanding of the natural order in the great religious traditions, and the place that man occupies in it. The author does not propose “a solution”,  rather argues that these principles can offer hope where scientism has failed so miserably. The main chapters deal with cosmogonies, the duality between sacred and profane, the human situation, the symbolism of natural forms, the cosmological sciences and the Western desacralization of nature. At the end, it includes references to numerous authors.