Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Introduction: Being in Outer Space 1
4. 1. Exoplanets and Icy Moons and Mars, Oh My! 15
5. 2. Astrobiology’s Intra-Active Aliens 32
6. 3. Being a Living-System 46
7. 4. The imago Dei as a Refractive Symbol 62
8. 5. Conceptualizing Nature 86
9. 6. The Anthropocene as Planetarity in Deep Time 104
10. 7. An Artful Planet 128
11. 8. Living-Into Presence, Wonder, and Play 146
12. Epilogue: Ad Astra Per Aspera 188
13. Acknowledgments 201
14. Notes 203
15. Bibliography 241
16. Index 263