Joseph Sittler - "The Care of the Earth" (January 14, 1962)

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Title:
Joseph Sittler - "The Care of the Earth" (January 14, 1962)
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  • Sermon start time: (Part 1) 0:00:01. Sermon end time: (Part 1) 0:34:24.

  • In this wide-ranging and highly literary meditation upon Psalm 104, a very early example of Christian environmental thinking (1962), the preacher calls upon texts from Aquinas to Dostoevsky to contemporary poets in order to develop a religious vision for human care of the earth. The preacher invites hearers to see themselves in a new way: in our relation to the natural world, we do not find a set of resources to be used, but the place which is constitutive of our very selfhood, constitutive of our very ability to glorify God and enjoy him forever. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)

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https://idn.duke.edu/ark:/87924/r4fj29t58
Date:
January 14, 1962
Speaker:
Sittler, Joseph
Liturgical Calendar:
Epiphany
Chapter and Verse:
Psalm 104
Subject:
Contributor:
Duke University. Chapel
Identifier:
  • UA.17.01.0003 RR-0169
  • ref5540_67g
  • uachapelsermaud
  • duke:321291
  • dcrau001784
  • ark:/87924/r4fj29t58
  • 7e2f1a50-fd11-45c4-9dc9-ac37e9ed46e8
Digital Collection:
Duke Chapel Recordings
Source Collection:
Duke University Chapel recordings
Language:
English
Location:
  • United States
  • North Carolina
  • Durham (N.C.)
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The Duke University Chapel Recordings were transferred to the Duke University Archives beginning in 1970.
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