Overview
Playing on the various meanings of Seeing Through God, John Llewelyn
explores the act of looking in the wake of the death of the transcendent God of
metaphysics. Taking up strategies developed by the Western sciences for seeing and
observing, he finds that the so-called tough-minded practices of the physical
sciences are very much at home with the so-called tender-minded practices of Eastern
religions. Instead of opposing East and West, Llewelyn thinks that blending these
spheres leads to a better understanding of aesthetic experience and imagination. In
this blending, he presents a phenomenological description of the imagination and the
ethical and religious dimensions of the act of imagining. Seeing Through God touches
on themes of salvation, the preservation of the environment, and the role of God in
our temptation to dishonor the earth. This unique book presents Llewelyn as one of
the leading interpreters of the environmental phenomenology movement.