A Theology For The Earth
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Author | : Catherine Keller |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2018-10-30 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0231548613 |
Amid melting glaciers, rising waters, and spreading droughts, Earth has ceased to tolerate our pretense of mastery over it. But how can we confront climate change when political crises keep exploding in the present? Noted ecotheologian and feminist philosopher of religion Catherine Keller reads the feedback loop of political and ecological depredation as secularized apocalypse. Carl Schmitt’s political theology of the sovereign exception sheds light on present ideological warfare; racial, ethnic, economic, and sexual conflict; and hubristic anthropocentrism. If the politics of exceptionalism are theological in origin, she asks, should we not enlist the world’s religious communities as part of the resistance? Keller calls for dissolving the opposition between the religious and the secular in favor of a broad planetary movement for social and ecological justice. When we are confronted by populist, authoritarian right wings founded on white male Christian supremacism, we can counter with a messianically charged, often unspoken theology of the now-moment, calling for a complex new public. Such a political theology of the earth activates the world’s entangled populations, joined in solidarity and committed to revolutionary solutions to the entwined crises of the Anthropocene.
Author | : Thomas Berry |
Publisher | : Mystic, Conn. : Twenty-Third Publications |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Reference |
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Author | : William Dyrness |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2004-08-19 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1725211424 |
Noting that Christians in the 20th century have not been able to make up their minds whether God and our corporate lives have anything to do with each other, Dyrness explores the century's theological trends. Citing the impact of contemporary hermeneutics, Dyrness shows how the Bible still functions as a master narrative wherein Christians can find themselves. Dyrness addresses various aspects of contemporary culture, constructing a theology of embodiment that connects culture and worship in concrete ways. For all those concerned with issues of religion and culture, particularly of the raging Culture Wars, 'The Earth is God's' offers an informed Evangelical view that is at once balanced and hopeful.
Author | : Steven Bouma-Prediger |
Publisher | : Baker Academic |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2010-04 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 080103695X |
This substantially revised and updated edition provides the most thorough evangelical treatment available on a theology of creation care.
Author | : Andreas J. Köstenberger |
Publisher | : InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2020-09-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0830825495 |
The saving mission of Jesus constitutes the foundation for Christian mission, and the Christian gospel is its message. This second edition of a classic NSBT volume emphasizes how the Bible presents a continuing narrative of God's mission, providing a robust historical and chronological backbone to the unfolding of the early Christian mission.
Author | : Anna Case-Winters |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2016-04-08 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1317070356 |
In the present ecological crisis, it is imperative that human beings reconsider their place within nature and find new, more responsible and sustainable ways of living. Assumptions about the nature of God, the world, and the human being, shape our thinking and, consequently, our acting. Some have charged that the Christian tradition has been more a hindrance than a help because its theology of nature has unwittingly legitimated the exploitation of nature. This book takes the current criticism of Christian tradition to heart and invites a reconsideration of the problematic elements: its desacralization of nature; its preoccupation with the human being to the neglect of the rest of nature; its dualisms and elevation of the spiritual over material reality, and its habit of ignoring or resisting scientific understandings of the natural world. Anna Case-Winters argues that Christian tradition has a more viable theology of nature to offer. She takes a look at some particulars in Christian tradition as a way to illustrate the undeniable problems and to uncover the untapped possibilities. In the process, she engages conversation partners that have been sharply critical and particularly insightful (feminist theology, process thought, and the religion and science dialogue). The criticisms and insights of these partners help to shape a proposal for a reconstructed theology of nature that can more effectively fund our struggle for the fate of the earth.
Author | : Anne Marie Dalton |
Publisher | : University of Ottawa Press |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 1999-04-23 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0776615319 |
While many feel that something must be done, few perceive the state of the ecological crisis as a "profound religious problem." While Thomas Berry sought to fire the imagination and motivate his listener to action, Bernard Lonergan was absorbed by the growing gulf between traditional Christian theology and its relevance to modern problems. This book brings together the work of these dynamic thinkers and examines their mutual contribution to theology for our time and for our planet.
Author | : Joe Rigney |
Publisher | : Crossway |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2014-12-31 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1433544768 |
God’s world is full of good things. Ice-cold lemonade. The laughter of children. College football. Scrambled eggs and crispy bacon. A late night with old friends around a blazing campfire. God certainly knows how to give good gifts to his children. But where is the line when it comes to enjoying all the pleasurable things our world affords? In The Things of Earth, professor Joe Rigney offers perplexed Christians a breath of fresh air by lifting the burden of false standards and impossible expectations related to the Christian life—freeing readers to gratefully embrace every good thing we receive from the hand of God. Helping us avoid our tendency to forget the Giver on the one hand and neglect his gifts on the other, this much-needed book reminds us that God’s blessings should drive us to worship and that a passion for God’s glory can be as wide as the world itself.
Author | : J. Javier Álvaro |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2019-04-12 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1527533166 |
Negationism is an irrational but useful tool for manipulation. Almost nobody supports the Flat Earth model or the geocentrism, but some European educational laws still offer a confessional education that treats as real the myth about Adam and Eve. This book recounts the struggle that human mind has maintained, over two millennia, against creationist myths. The journey takes place between cosmogonies, theological dogmas, natural philosophy, Deism and the inevitable secularism of the Age of Enlightenment.
Author | : Roger S. Gottlieb |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 783 |
Release | : 2003-11-07 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1136915397 |
Updated with nearly forty new selections to reflect the tremendous growth and transformation of scholarly, theological, and activist religious environmentalism, the second edition of This Sacred Earth is an unparalleled resource for the study of religion's complex relationship to the environment.