Sherrard likewise sees the problem as primarily rooted in “our sense of God.” But this is itself, Sherrard would say, a metaphysical problem. Sherrard does not separate metaphysics from theology. He accuses Western theologians of having done precisely that. He considers this separation to be at the root of modernity’s distorted view of nature.

Sherrard laments the breaking apart of what he calls the “theoanthropocosmic synthesis” of traditional Christianity. He means by this expression the idea that humanity and the cosmos are, by their very nature, inextricably connected to each other and to God. They “participate,” in their very being, in God. Too much early modern theology, according to Sherrard, lost sight of the participation of all creation, centered around man, in God. Metaphyics, as a consequence, was detached from theology. Descartes, who was one of the first modern proponents of a mechanistic view of nature, was an inheritor of this bad theology –of this misguided sense of God, of this bad metaphysics.

Here’s the link to the video if anyone’s interested:

http://vitalvotes.com/blogs/public_blog/The-Future-of-Food—–You-NEED-to-Watch-This-Video—-/3131.aspx

MRyan