Includes bibliographical reference and index

|gI: The altered understanding of nature in modernity: the situation --|tEcological challenge to theology --|gII: The Trinitarian cosmology of Gregory of Nazianzus: a tradition --|tContext of Cappadocian theology --|tGregory's theological interpretation of creation set free --|gIII: Cosmology as soteriology - a constructive correlation -- |tCorrelating the interpretations of late antiquity and late modernity --|tConsiderations from the perspective of liberation theology --|tMethodological considerations