Peters, Karl. "Dancing with the Sacred: Excerpts." Zygon 40, no. 3 (September 2005), 631-666.

Abstract

In excerpts from my Dancing with the Sacred (2002), I use ideas from modern science, our world's religions, and my own experience to highlight three themes of the book.  First, working within the framework of a scientific worldview, I develop a concept of the sacred (or God) as the creative activity of nature, human history, and individual life.  Second, I offer a relational understanding of human nature that I call our social-ecological selves and suggest some general considerations about what it means to live meaningfully and morally in an evolutionary world.  Third, I explore how we might be at home in a universe that is constantly changing and which suffering and death are interwoven with life and new creation.