Our Christian relation to nature is what it is because, nature is, first of all, "hid with Christ in God,"2 it has died and been resurrected with him. However, I hope that what you will see and understand will give to the questions before this conference the complexity they deserve. Moreover, it can be seen because, as an historical transformation of the understanding of nature, it is fundamentally simple. I want to show you something about the Christian understanding of nature which can quite literally be seen. Despite Our Lord's rebuke of Thomas, demanding to touch and see, that the blessed were those who believe not having seen, and the Pauline definition of faith which opposes faith and sight, we tend to accept the axiom that seeing is believing.1 Partly because of the domination of communication by television, the character of our relation to nature, the problems with that relation, and the solutions seem obvious.
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