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In Everyday Glory, widely respected theologian Gerald McDermott recaptures a Christian vision of reality that has been lost for most of the last century: that all the world is full of divine signs that are openings into God's glory. Bringing together insights from some of the tradition's greatest thinkers--Jonathan Edwards, John Henry Newman, and Karl Barth--McDermott resurrects a robust theology of creation for Protestants. He argues that contemporary Christianity must chart a course between "natural" and "revealed" varieties of theological reasoning and shows how and where meaning can be found outside the church and special revelation in various realms of creation, including nature, science, law, history, animals, sex, and sports.

Contents
1. Recovering a Lost Vision
2. The Bible: A World of Types, Keys to Types in All the Worlds
3. Nature: Sermons in Stones
4. Science: The Wonder of the Universe
5. Law: The Moral Argument
6. History: Images of God in the Histories of Peoples
7. Animals: The Zoological World Bursting with Signs
8. Sex: The Language of the Body
9. Sports: Its Agonies and Ecstasies
10. World Religions: So Similar and Yet So Different
11. A New World: Believing Is Seeing
Appendix: Theological Objections--Luther and Barth
Index