Download or read book Ecotheology and Love written by Bahar Davary and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-06-01 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ecotheology and Love: The Converging Poetics of Sohrab Sepehri and James Baldwin, Bahar Davary points to the interrelation of religion, poetry, and ecology from a comparative perspective with an emphasis on decoloniality. This work shows how authors Sohrab Seperhi and James Baldwin sought social justice by building their work on love and an authentic way of knowing the world based on an interconnected knowledge of the self. The layers of depth in Sepehri and Baldwin’s works and their immediacy for our time has yet to be fully understood, but through Ecotheology and Love, Davary takes a significant step towards achieving such a fuller understanding.
Download or read book Ecotheology written by Kiara Jorgenson and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-24 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just as God loves creation, so are Christians called to care for it. Now, amid the accelerating degradation of our global environment, that task has taken on greater urgency than ever. How should Christians respond to the climate crisis and widespread pollution of earth’s shared commons, water and air? How might Christian communities think about human responsibility to other living creatures? In roundtable format, Richard Bauckham, Cynthia Moe-Lobeda, Steven Bouma-Prediger, and John F. Haught navigate the layers of what it means for humans to live in right relationship with earth’s lifesystems. After each contributor’s essay, the other three contributors issue a response—including points of disagreement and questions—thereby modeling for readers productive and respectful dialogue. The ecumenical conversations in Ecotheology represent the diverse viewpoints of contributors’ theological and practical commitments, exploring creation care through a variety of frameworks, including natural science, biblical studies, systematic theology, and Christian ethics.
Download or read book Introducing Evangelical Ecotheology written by Daniel L. Brunner and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today's church finds itself in a new world, one in which climate change and ecological degradation are front-page news. In the eyes of many, the evangelical community has been slow to take up a call to creation care. How do Christians address this issue in a faithful way? This evangelically centered but ecumenically informed introduction to ecological theology (ecotheology) explores the global dimensions of creation care, calling Christians to meet contemporary ecological challenges with courage and hope. The book provides a biblical, theological, ecological, and historical rationale for earthcare as well as specific practices to engage both individuals and churches. Drawing from a variety of Christian traditions, the book promotes a spirit of hospitality, civility, honesty, and partnership. It includes a foreword by Bill McKibben and an afterword by Matthew Sleeth.
Download or read book Ecotheology in the Humanities written by Melissa Brotton and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-05-20 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of essays about the interaction between God, humans, and nature in the context of the environmental challenges and Biblical studies. Chapters include topics on creation care and Sabbath, sacramental approaches to earth care, classical and medieval cosmologies, ecotheodicy, how we understand the problem of nonhuman suffering in a world controlled by a good God, ecojustice, and how humans help to alleviate nonhuman suffering. The book seeks to provide a way to understand Judeo-Christian perspectives on human-to-nonhuman interaction through Biblical, literary, cultural, film, and music studies, and as such, offers an interdisciplinary approach with emphasis on the humanities, which provides a broader platform for ecotheology.
Download or read book Resisting Structural Evil written by Cynthia D. Moe-Lobeda and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. This book was released on 2013 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reorienting Christian ethics from its usual anthropocentrism to an ecocentrism entails a new framework that Moe-Lobeda lays out in her first chapters, culminating in a creative rethinking of how it is that we understand morally.
Download or read book Eco theology written by Celia Deane-Drummond and published by Saint Mary's Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is comprehensive coverage of the rapidly growing field of eco-theology. Eco-Theology evaluates the merits or otherwise of contemporary eco-theologies and introduces readers to critical debates, while tracing trends from around the globe and key theological responses. The emphasis is on the theological aspects of Christian engagement with environmental issues, rather than primarily ethical or spiritual concerns. Included are further reading sections and discussion questions.
Download or read book A Primer in Ecotheology written by Celia E. Deane-Drummond and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-09-22 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book serves as an introduction to the burgeoning field of ecothology, illustrating both its variety and its commonality across different Christian theological divides. Some of the questions addressed in this short book include the following: How can the Bible still make sense in the context of climate change and biodiversity loss? Who on earth is Jesus Christ, and what does he mean for us in today’s world? How can Christians be faithful to their traditions while responding to pressing calls to be engaged in environmental activism? What is the relationship between theory and practice, and local as well as global demands, and how is this relationship expressed in different ecclesial settings? How can we encourage each other to develop a sense of the earth as divine gift? Written in clear, accessible style, this book walks readers through difficult concepts and shows the way different sources in Christian theology have responded to one of the most significant cultural issues of our time.
Download or read book Ecotheology and Nonhuman Ethics in Society written by Melissa Brotton and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book promotes Christian ecology and animal ethics from the perspectives of the Bible, science, and the Judeo-Christian tradition. In an age of climate change, how do we protect species and individual animals? Does it matter how we treat bugs? How does understanding the Trinity and Christ's self-emptying nature help us to be more responsible earth caretakers? What do Christian ethics have to do with hunting? How do the Foxfire books of Southern Appalachia help us to love a place? Does ecology need a place at the pulpit and in hymns? How do Catholic approaches, past and present, help us appreciate and respond to the created world? Finally, how does Jesus respond to humans, nonhumans, and environmental concerns in the Gospel of Mark?
Download or read book Decolonizing Ecotheology written by S. Lily Mendoza and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-02-18 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decolonizing Ecotheology: Indigenous and Subaltern Challenges is a pioneering attempt to contest the politics of conquest, commodification, and homogenization in mainstream ecotheology, informed by the voices of Indigenous and subaltern communities from around the world. The book marshals a robust polyphony of reportage, wonder, analysis, and acumen seeking to open the door to a different prospect for a planet under grave duress and a different self-assessment for our own species in the mix. At the heart of that prospect is an embrace of soils and waters as commons and a privileging of subaltern experience and marginalized witness as the bellwethers of greatest import. Of course, decolonization finds its ultimate test in the actual return of land and waters to precontact Indigenous who yet have feet on the ground or paddles in the waves, and who conjure dignity and vision in the manifold of their relations, in spite of ceaseless onslaught and dismissal. Their courage is the haunt these pages hallow like an Abel never entirely erased from the history. May the moaning stop and the re-creation begin!
Download or read book For Goodness Sake Principles of an Ecotheology written by Robert Cuttino and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-10-23 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There seems to be a huge disconnect between religion and the environment. In For Goodness' Sake: Principles of an Ecotheology, author Robert Cuttino challenges hyperindividualized, self-absorbed, contemporary theology that insists on our favored status. He proposes an "ecotheology." Cuttino considers, among other things, that individuals are not the greatest good, despite what we might think. He shows we may be, in fact, secondary in importance to the health of all environmental systems that make life possible. And individual humans are likely second in importance to the health of those economic systems that provide decent livelihoods and quality of life to all. Readers will also learn why just "greening" the Bible will not work. For Goodness' Sake: Principles of an Ecotheology isn't only about what will not work. Cuttino shows that especially for restoring the health of the most important system of all-the ethical sphere-there may be an imperative for Christianity.
Download or read book The Christian Future and the Fate of Earth written by Thomas Berry and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title collects Berry's signature views on the interconnectedness of both Earth's future and the Christian future. He ponders why Christians have been late in coming to the issue of the environment.
Download or read book God is Not green written by Adrian Michael Hough and published by Gracewing Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thought-provoking account challenging the idea that Christianity has little to say in the ecological arena. Explores the ways in which traditional Christian teaching and practice provide an adequate response to the ecological issues now facing the planet. The author seeks to make sense of the causes and possible solutions to the current environmental crisis while pointing out important consequences for the Church, its ethics, and liturgy.
Download or read book Christian Faith and the Earth written by Ernst M. Conradie and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-24 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christianity has often been accused for being complicit in ecological destruction. In response, Christian ecotheology offers both a Christian critique of environmental destruction and an ecological critique of Christianity. It thus encourages an ecological reformation of the Christian tradition for the sake of the whole earth. This volume focuses such a dual critique on the content and significance of the Christian faith in order to confront those aspects that may undermine an environmental praxis, ethos and spirituality. Each of the essays explores one of the core Christian symbols, seeks to capture the current state of the debate in this regard, identifies emerging horizons for such an ecological reformation and invites conversation on the road ahead. This volume includes essays on the trinity, Christology, pneumatology, creation, anthropology, natural suffering, providence, sin and salvation, the nature, governance, ministries and missions of the church, eschatological consummation, a Christian ethos, the role of liturgy, religious plurality andunderlying methodological problems. It thus complements several other discourses in ecotheology on biblical hermeneutics, a retrieval of particular traditions, environmental ethics, animal studies, ecclesial praxis, Christian missions and religion and ecology. The volume captures insights emerging from a collaborative research project on 'Christian Faith and the Earth' in which more than one hundred leading ecotheologians from six continents participated since 2007. It builds on the culminating conference of this project held in Cape Town in August 2012.It extends the conversation on the road ahead through inputs from contributing authors and various respondents.
Download or read book Early Ecotheology and Joseph Sittler written by Panu Pihkala and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2017 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When did Christians begin to address environmental questions? What can be learned from these pioneering thinkers? This study reveals that between 1910 and 1954 many theologians called for responsibility towards nature. The focal point is the work of Joseph Sittler (1904-1987), an American Lutheran and ecumenical theologian. The role of these early ecotheologians is discussed in relation to environmental history and education. The findings show that ecotheology was not as strongly separated from other environmentalism as it was after the 1960s. (Series: Studies in Religion and the Environment / Studien zur Religion und Umwelt, Vol. 12) [Subject: Religious Studies, Environmental Studies, Ecotheology, Joseph Sittler]
Download or read book Sublime Community written by Anthony J. Kelly and published by ATF Press. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Pentecost Sunday, 24 May 2015, when Pope Francis issued Laudato Si': On Care for our Common Home. It broadened and deepened Catholic awareness and identity, encouraged dialogue with many sciences and disciplines while stimulating ecumenical and even interreligious collaboration and communication. This volume of essays looks at many aspects of an eco-theology and examines Pope Francis' Encyclical Laudato Si'. As the author writes: 'A fundamental sense of community is the first requirement of any effective ecological commitment and communion. But it is precisely on this level of community that increasing alienation has been most obvious. The distancing and disaffection of the human from nature, along with the violence and antagonism of human beings among themselves has long been the cause of alarm. Alliances have been formed along political, economic, racial, sexual, cultural, and religious lines. Political, economic, and social superstructures have evolved to serve an alienating situation; the common good is at best understood as a compromise amongst competing groups of self-interest and greed. In such a context, ecology can easily restrict its aims to environmentalism and merely landscaping areas of poisoned earth.' 'How might the Eucharist shape an ecological vision? It brings nature and culture together in a unique way, bringing together what is too often kept apart in referring to, say, nature and culture, person and community, creation and the Creator. ' 'The Eucharist as holy communion also brings together many gifts and many forms of giving. From nature's giving we have the grain and the grapes. From the giving expressed in human work and skill, we have the gifts of bread and wine. From the generous giving of family and friends flow the gifts of good meals and festive celebrations. From Jesus' self-giving at the Last Supper, the disciples were given his "body and blood", the food and drink to nourish life in him. After his resurrection, his giving continues as he breathes into his disciples his Holy Spirit. And working in and through all these gifts and kinds of giving, there is the gift of the Father who so loved the world.'
Download or read book Ecotheology and the Practice of Hope written by Anne Marie Dalton and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2010-09-29 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at how ecotheology has created a new vision of the natural world and the place of humans within it.
Download or read book Ecotheology written by David G. Hallman and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new and urgent item on the agenda of churches around the world is the theological and ethical dimensions of the ecological crisis. Highlighted by the United Nations Earth Summit in Brazil, the issues covered in this volume raise unavoidable and fundamental questions of the life-style and Christian witness in the face of threats to the very survival of humankind and planet Earth. The groundbreaking essays by more than two-dozen contributors in this book are divided into five sections: biblical witness, theological challenges, insights from ecofeminism, insights from indigenous people, and ethical implications. Contributors include: JosŽ P. M. Cunanan, Philippines; Margot Kaessmann, Germany; Renthy Keitzar, India; K. C. Abraham, India; Tony Brun, Costa Rica; Milton B. Efthimiou, United States; Wesley Granberg-Michaelson, World Council of Churches; Kwok Pui-lan, Hong Kong; Larry Rasmussen, United States; Samuel Rayan, India; M. Adebisi Sowunmi, Nigeria; Tsehai Berhane-Selassie, Ethiopia; Chung Hyun Kyung, South Korea; Aruna Gnanadason, India; Anne Primavesi, United Kingdom; Rosemary Radford Ruether, United States; Rob Cooper, New Zealand; Stan McKay, Canada; George Tinker, United States; Edward Antonio, Zimbabwe; Leonardo Boff, Brazil; M. L. Daneel, South Africa; David G. Hallman, Canada; Dieter T. Hessel, United States Catherine Keller, United States.
