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Taking in the Real: Human Beings and the Earth

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Protecting Nature, Saving Creation

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“O Schönheit! O ewigen Liebens, Lebens trunk’ne Welt!”: “O beauty, O world drunk with eternal love and life!” These words that Mahler added to the text of the last movement of Das Lied von der Erde (1907–1909) arguably sum up the whole spirit of the work. They are fundamental concepts shaping the structure of the composition.

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  1. Patriarch of Venice, Italy

    Card. Angelo Scola

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  1. Catholic University of Milan, Italy

    Pasquale Gagliardi (Professor of Sociology of Organization, Secretary General of the Giorgio Cini Foundation in Venice) (Professor of Sociology of Organization, Secretary General of the Giorgio Cini Foundation in Venice)

  2. ISEO (Institut Supérieur d’Etudes Oecuméniques/Paris Institute for Advanced Studies in Ecumenism), University Paris (Institut Catholique de Paris), France

    Anne Marie Reijnen (ordained minister and a Protestant theologian, Kairos Chair, University Professor, Professor of Theology in Brussels and Paris) (ordained minister and a Protestant theologian, Kairos Chair, University Professor, Professor of Theology in Brussels and Paris)

  3. FPG/FUTP (Faculté Universitaire de Théologie Protestante), Brussesl, Belgium

    Anne Marie Reijnen (ordained minister and a Protestant theologian, Kairos Chair, University Professor, Professor of Theology in Brussels and Paris) (ordained minister and a Protestant theologian, Kairos Chair, University Professor, Professor of Theology in Brussels and Paris)

  4. University of Venice, Italy

    Philipp Valentini

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Scola, C.A. (2013). Taking in the Real: Human Beings and the Earth. In: Gagliardi, P., Reijnen, A.M., Valentini, P. (eds) Protecting Nature, Saving Creation. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137342669_3

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