Ecotheology in the Humanities
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding the Divine and Nature
Afterword by Robert R. Gottfried Foreword by John Cobb Jr. Contributions by Ellen Bernstein, Ginger Hanks Harwood, John Gatta, Ron Jolliffe, David Kendall, Young-Chun Kim, Samuel McBride, Mick Pope, Doug Sikkema, Chad Wriglesworth Edited by Melissa Brotton
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Publication date:
20 May 2016Length of book:
300 pagesPublisher
Lexington BooksISBN-13: 9781498527941
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.
I am in love with this timely and ground-breaking book for the way it combines incisive thinking and beauty of expression; for a vocabulary that includes eco-theology, eco-theodicy, eco-missiology, and eco-esthetics; for the competent voices speaking from the vantage point of theology, biblical studies, music, poetry, literature, and film; and for leading us to a culture of life and plenitude in theory and practice.