Resumen de Ancient Christian Ecopoetics: Cosmologies, Saints, Things by Virginia Burrus (review)
In her newest groundbreaking book, however, Virginia Burrus complicates this narrative by weaving together vast expanses of philosophy, gender theory, and object-oriented ontology to unearth the unfamiliarity of early Christianity's relationship to the animate world. Perhaps the greatest strength of this structure lies in the "interludes," more free-style interjections that sometimes act as summary, other times as modern anecdote, but which always tie the reader intimately to the material, reminding us that we, like early Christians before us, are not separate from the biological community we inhabit. Part I, which takes John Sallis as its guide, focuses on the multifaceted manifestations of Plato's khora as a third cause that haunts the creation of the universe. Since khora constitutes the very "power and possibility of materialization," Burrus postulates that, for early Christian and Jewish authors, thinking about god could not be divorced from thinking ecologically (72).
