Author: Calvin B. DeWittPublisher:
ISBN: 9781592554140
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Earth-wise
Author: Calvin B. DeWittPublisher:
ISBN: 9781592554140
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to Christianity and the Environment
Author: Alexander J. B. HamptonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110849501X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
How one of the world's most important religions, Christianity, shaped one of the important issues of our time, the environment.
The Environment and Christian Ethics
Author: Michael S. NorthcottPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521576314
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
A new approach to environmental ethics from within the Christian tradition.
A Christian Guide to Environmental Issues
Author: Margot HodsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781800390058
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Environmental Values in Christian Art
Author: Susan Power BrattonPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 0791479242
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Ecologies of Grace
Author: Willis JenkinsPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199989885
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Christianity struggles to show how living on earth matters for living with God. While people of faith increasingly seek practical ways to respond to the environmental crisis, theology has had difficulty contextualizing the crisis and interpreting the responses. In Ecologies of Grace, Willis Jenkins presents a field-shaping introduction to Christian environmental ethics that offers resources for renewing theology. Observing how religious environmental practices often draw on concepts of grace, Jenkins maps the way Christian environmental strategies draw from traditions of salvation as they engage the problems of environmental ethics. He then uses this new map to explore afresh the ecological dimensions of Christian theology. Jenkins first shows how Christian ethics uniquely frames environmental issues, and then how those approaches both challenge and reinhabit theological traditions. He identifies three major strategies for making environmental problems intelligible to Christian moral experience. Each one draws on a distinct pattern of grace as it adapts a secular approach to environmental ethics. The strategies of ecojustice, stewardship, and ecological spirituality make environments matter for Christian experience by drawing on patterns of sanctification, redemption, and deification. He then confronts the problems of each of these strategies through critical reappraisals of Thomas Aquinas, Karl Barth, and Sergei Bulgakov. Each represents a soteriological tradition which Jenkins explores as an ecology of grace, letting environmental questions guide investigation into how nature becomes significant for Christian experience. By being particularly sensitive to the ways in which environmental problems are made intelligible to Christian moral experience, Jenkins guides his readers toward a fuller understanding of Christianity and ecology. He not only makes sense of the variety of Christian environmental ethics, but by showing how environmental issues come to the heart of Christian experience, prepares fertile ground for theological renewal.
The Environment and the Christian
Author: Calvin B. DeWittPublisher: Baker Publishing Group (MI)
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Let Creation Rejoice
Author: Jonathan A. MooPublisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 083089635X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
The Bible is full of images of God caring for his creation in all its complexity. Yet experts warn us that a so-called perfect storm of factors threatens the future of life on earth. The authors assess the evidence for climate change and other threats that our planet faces in the coming decades while pointing to the hope God offers the world and the people he made.
Christian Faith and the Environment
Author: Brennan R. HillPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725218852
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Although the environmental crisis has been recognized as an international threat, Christian attempts to reconcile their religious traditions and the earth are just beginning. 'Christian Faith and the Environment' challenges churches to take a stand for environmental concerns. Hill explores how twentieth-century theologians such as Karl Rahner, Bernard Lonergan, and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin have taught Christians to build bridges between Christianity and creation. Examining sacramental rites, church documents, and feminist theological insights on ecology, Hill outlines a Christian environmental spirituality and traces the ethical challenges posed by our new awareness of our environment.
Law, Religion and the Environment in Africa
Author: M. Christian GreenPublisher: African Sun Media
ISBN: 1928480578
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
This volume explores themes of ecotheology, ecofeminism, environmental pollution and degradation, climate change, human and environmental rights, sustainable development, human-animal relations through totem and taboo, sacred sites and spaces, and other environmental topics in ways that add immeasurably to the study of African environmentalisms and the interaction of law and religion. In terms of religion, the capability of humans not only to sin and destroy the earth, but also to repair and redeem it, is very much in evidence across Christianity, Islam and Africa’s many indigenous religious and cultural traditions. In terms of law, the need for effective policies and for states and governments to work with indigenous groups and communities towards environmental solutions is also apparent.