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- What is stress/fear?
- Philosophical & theological views
- How do communities respond to
disturbance?
- Fear shapes ecosystems
- Terror Management Theory
- Functionality of Fear and Death
Wholeness and Ecosystems: The Functionality of Fear John R. Wood - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Wholeness and Ecosystems: The Functionality of Fear John R. Wood - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Wholeness and Ecosystems: The Functionality of Fear John R. Wood and Darcy Visscher The Kings University July 28, 2018 Outline - What is stress/fear? - Philosophical & theological views - How do communities respond to disturbance? -
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“We have nothing to fear except fear itself” “I’m not afraid” “You will be. You will be!” “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of Wisdom”
Familiar Fear
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20th Century Philosophers on Nature
Herman Dooyerweerd
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20th Century Philosophers on Nature
Herman Dooyerweerd Francis Schaeffer
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Fear, Death and The Wages of Sin The Source of Fear and Death?
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Bernard Ramm (1954) Karl Barth (1956) Robert Farrar Capon (1971) Loren Wilkinson (1976) Paul Saintmire (2000) Ray Anderson (2001)
George L. Murphy (2003) Ronald Osborn (2014) D and J Moo (2018)
A Sampling of Christian Scholars Re- addressing Death
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“… the story does not imply that human beings were created immortal.”
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“The curse … does not seem to represent … some sort of mysterious ontological change in the very makeup of creation itself.”
Creation Care: A Biblical Theology of the Natural World Douglas J. Moo and Jonathan A. Moo (2018)
Current Example of Christian Scholars Re- addressing Death
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Fear a Pervasive Phenomenon
“We eat”, sleep, and breathe fear…can “you imagine living without fear?”
NT Wright (Following Jesus 1994)
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“The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity – designed largely to avoid the fatality of death, to overcome it by denying in some way that it is the final destiny of man.”
Ernst Becker (The Denial of Death 1973)
Fear a Pervasive Phenomenon
“We eat”, sleep, and breathe fear…can “you imagine living without fear?”
NT Wright (Following Jesus 1994)
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Adaptations to Fear and Predation
Depends on Chance and Learning
Warning Coloration And Behavior Camouflage Hiding in Plain Sight
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Predation and Theories of Ecosystem Development, Stability and Change
Keystone Species Robert Paine Top Down & Bottom Up Regulation
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Stress
Non Lethal (Non-Consumptive) Effects
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Cortisol – Good, Bad and Necessary
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“"Landscape of Fear”
“"Landscape of Stress"
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Scared to death?
Indirect Effects Behavior Direct Effects Mortality
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Nutritional State Reveals Complex Consequences of Risk in a Wild Predator-Prey Community
DeWitt, Schuler, Visscher & Thiel (2017)
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Nutritional State Reveals Complex Consequences of Risk in a Wild Predator-Prey Community
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Nutritional State Reveals Complex Consequences of Risk in a Wild Predator-Prey Community
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Ecology and Stress – Fear in Nature
Overlap between the ecology of stress and 4 areas of biology
(After Krebs – 2009)
Ecology of Stress Physiology Evolution Genetics Behavior
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Terror Management Theory
William James (19th Century Philosopher) suggested that death is indeed the worm at the core of the human condition.
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Terror Management Theory
William James (19th Century Philosopher) suggested that death is indeed the worm at the core of the human condition. Social Psychology Empirical Research by Solomon, Greenberg and Pyszcynski (2015)
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Death influences Experimental Outcomes Death Salience Shapes Attitudes
Symbolism Judgements
Courtesy Ernst Becker Foundation
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20th Century Denial of Death
Theory of Mind
Courtesy Ernst Becker Foundation
Humor Too!
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Edward Hicks “Peaceable Kingdom”
From flourishing to redemption & renewal
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