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| Author | : Norman C. Habel |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 214 |
| Release | : 2001-11-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0567263614 |
In this volume scholars from around the world read the story of the Earth in major Wisdom Traditions using the ecojustice principles outlined in Volume 1, 'Readings from the Perspective of Earth'. These readings uncover a range of fresh perspectives about Earth in seeking to discover where the voices of Earth are suppressed or heard in the Wisdom texts. Some texts reveal an ecokinship between Earth and Wisdom. Texts from Job challenge a cosmic model that gives priority to heaven over Earth. Still others challenge the mandate to dominate in Genesis 1.28. In many texts, Wisdom provides a vehicle for a new kinship with Earth. Comtributors include Jenny Wightman, Hendrik Viviers, Carole Fontaine, Izak Spangenberg, Alice Sinnott, Willie van Heerden, Katherine Dell, Dale Patrick, Marie Turner and Laura Hobgood-Oster.
| Author | : Norman C. Habel |
| Publisher | : Pilgrim Press |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Bible |
| ISBN | : 9780829814415 |
Is the Earth capable of raising its voice against injustice? Is this voice heard in Wisdom literature? How?Ecofeminist readings in this volume emphasize the suppression of women's voices and voices of the Earth, while other essays invite the reader to celebrate how creation is central to the book of Job and how the song of songs calls us to celebrate Earth.The writers highlight the importance of Wisdom being portrayed as a woman in a patriarchal world and the relationship of Wisdom to the Earth. This book challenges readers to be in tune with the Earth and the many voices that speak.
| Author | : Charlotte Vaughan Coyle |
| Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 396 |
| Release | : 2021-08-26 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1666705233 |
What kind of book is the Bible? Is it a rulebook or a guidebook for moral living? Is it a history book or a book filled with fascinating (and sometimes fantastic) stories? Did humans write the Bible or did God somehow speak a perfect message that the authors transcribed? Many people have asked these questions about the nature of this beautiful, odd, comforting, disturbing book the church calls its “Holy Scripture.” Charlotte Vaughan Coyle shares her own journey to make sense of the Bible in this read-through-the-Bible-in-a-year project. She discovered that the crucial work of asking hard questions and even arguing with the Bible revealed the Scriptures to be a symphony of polyphonic voices, a work of art that paints an alternative vision of reality, a complex novel-like story unavoidably embedded in its own culture and time, and yet able to give witness to the God beyond history who has acted (and continues to act) within history. With the heart of a pastor and the passion of a preacher, Rev. Coyle invites seekers and students (both churched and un-churched) to strap on their scuba gear and join her for a deeper dive beneath the surface of this immense, colorful, mysterious world of the Bible.
| Author | : Wade Davis |
| Publisher | : House of Anansi |
| Total Pages | : 274 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0887847668 |
Many of us are alarmed by the accelerating rates of extinction of plants and animals. But how many of us know that human cultures are going extinct at an even more shocking rate? While biologists estimate that 18 percent of mammals and 11 percent of birds are threatened, and botanists anticipate the loss of 8 percent of flora, anthropologists predict that fully 50 percent of the 7,000 languages spoken around the world today will disappear within our lifetimes. And languages are merely the canaries in the coal mine: what of the knowledge, stories, songs, and ways of seeing encoded in these voices? In The Wayfinders, Wade Davis offers a gripping and enlightening account of this urgent crisis. He leads us on a fascinating tour through a handful of indigenous cultures, describing the worldviews they represent and reminding us of the encroaching danger to humankind's survival should they vanish.
| Author | : Paul Collins |
| Publisher | : UNSW Press |
| Total Pages | : 306 |
| Release | : 2010-10 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1742240151 |
Global warming is now a reality that looms over us, and ecological devastation continues apace. Now, more than ever, there is clear recognition that we face a crisis. But who is to blame for this crisis? In this bold, challenging and provocative book, Paul Collins argues that Christianity has made a major contribution to the plight of the planet and must come to terms with a disaster that is now also the responsibility of the church.
| Author | : Christopher Scotton |
| Publisher | : Grand Central Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 406 |
| Release | : 2015-01-06 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1455551937 |
"A marvelous debut...has everything a big, thick novel should have, and I hated to put it down." -- John Grisham "A page-turner." -- New York Times Book Review For readers of The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, this is a dramatic and deeply moving novel about an act of violence in a small Appalachian town and the repercussions that will forever change a young man's view of human cruelty and compassion. After seeing the death of his younger brother in a terrible home accident, fourteen-year-old Kevin and his grieving mother are sent for the summer to live with Kevin's grandfather. In this town of Medgar, Kentucky, a peeled-paint coal town deep in Appalachia, Kevin quickly falls in with a half-wild hollow kid named Buzzy Fink who schools him in the mysteries and magnificence of the woods. The town is beset by a massive mountaintop removal operation that is blowing up the hills and back filling the hollows. Kevin's grandfather and others in town attempt to rally the citizens against the "company" and its powerful owner to stop the plunder of their mountain heritage. But when Buzzy witnesses a brutal hate crime, a sequence is set in play that will test Buzzy and Kevin to their absolute limits in an epic struggle for survival in the Kentucky mountains.
| Author | : Katharine J. Dell |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 130 |
| Release | : 2017-01-12 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0567670953 |
In the light of dramatic new interpretative approaches to the Bible this guide to Job follows not only a range of new approaches to the text but also addresses the traditional historical questions and other topical issues. Dell particularly highlights the problem of genre in understanding Job. She shows how problematic the term 'wisdom' is for this unique book, and argues that its radical sentiments earn it, rather, the title of 'parody'. Of all the biblical books it comes closest to tragedy, raising profound questions about its nature and place in the biblical canon. Job's relationship to its ancient Near Eastern counterparts, notably in ancient Mesopotamia, are also closely examined and key theological themes that characterize the book are explored. Finally different approaches - feminist, liberationist, ecological and psychological - are outlined so as to illuminate and inform our own personal readings and generate ever fresh understandings of this enigmatic text.
| Author | : Corinne Dale |
| Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
| Total Pages | : 229 |
| Release | : 2017 |
| Genre | : Humor |
| ISBN | : 1843844648 |
An investigation of the non-human world in the Exeter Book riddles, drawing on the exciting new approaches of eco-criticism and eco-theology.
| Author | : E. M. Conradie |
| Publisher | : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA |
| Total Pages | : 388 |
| Release | : 2006-10-01 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1920109234 |
There has been a proliferation of publications in the field of Christian ecological theology over the last three decades or so. These include a number of recent edited volumes, each covering a range of topics and consolidating many of the emerging insights in ecological theology. The call for Christian churches to respond to the environmental crisis has been reiterated numerous times in this vast corpus of literature, also in South Africa.
| Author | : Susanne Scholz |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 697 |
| Release | : 2020-10-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0190077506 |
The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Approaches to the Hebrew Bible brings together 37 essential essays written by leading international scholars, examining crucial points of analysis within the field of feminist Hebrew Bible studies. Organized into four major areas - globalization, neoliberalism, media, and intersectionality - the essays collectively provide vibrant, relevant, and innovative contributions to the field. The topics of analysis focus heavily on gender and queer identity, with essays touching on African, Korean, and European feminist hermeneutics, womanist and interreligious readings, ecofeminist and animal biblical studies, migration biblical studies, the role of gender binary voices in evangelical-egalitarian approaches, and the examination of scripture in light of trans women's voices. The volume also includes essays examining the Old Testament as recited in music, literature, film, and video games. The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Approaches to the Hebrew Bible charts a culturally, hermeneutically, and exegetically cutting-edge path for the ongoing development of biblical studies grounded in feminist, womanist, gender, and queer perspectives.
