Making Nature Sacred Blog #1
“The Puritans assumed that, beyond the definitive revelation of Scripture, signs in the phenomenal world also declared God’s glory and will” (Gatta 35) .
The theme of Gatta’s Chapter 2 is visible wonder of the Invisible world. He claims that the Puritanism believed in an unknowable character of God’s essence and I think that God I everywhere in nature without being seen thus he gives us visible signs of his wonder without actually revealing himself. Believing in a faith when there is not always evidence is a critical theme of the Bible. Such as when doubting Thomas asked to put his hands in the resurrected Jesus’s wounds and he replied with “Blessed are those who believe without seeing” religion requires a sort of blind obedience. This is in great contrast to modernists and other philosophy teachings that require us to question and reason things in the world to acquire a greater understanding. But to have faith in wilderness as a sacred place one must recognize the visible wonders of the invisible world.
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