Ecologies of Grace - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ecologies of Grace write by Willis Jenkins. This book was released on 2013-02-12. Ecologies of Grace available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Evocations of Grace
Evocations of Grace - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Evocations of Grace write by Joseph Sittler. This book was released on 2000. Evocations of Grace available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Evocations of Grace" gathers ten major writings by pioneering ecological theologian Joseph Sittler. Foundational to the field, these essays argue powerfully for the vital connection between Christian theology, ethics and the natural world. They provide the necessary perspective for thinking seriously about the earth and believers' responsibility to it.
Habitat of Grace
Habitat of Grace - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Habitat of Grace write by Carolyn M. King. This book was released on 2002. Habitat of Grace available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1990 the Worldwatch Institute in Washington estimated that humankind had forty years to make the transition to an environmentally stable society. If we have not succeeded by then, it concluded, environmental deterioration and economic decline are likley to be feeding on each other, pulling us into a downward spiral of social disintegration. Worldwatch is no millenarian cult, but a sober and careful organisation whose annual summaries of world affairs have become the planet's unofficial environmental health reports. Its pronouncements are cautiously worded, influential and worth attnedning to, even if the timing is hard to predict. This book uses the issues raised in these reports to look at biology, the envrinomental crisis and theological response to it all by developing a new theology of creation. Based on her scientific background in the bilogical sciences, King brings together biology and theology. It covers sciecne, religion and environment, human nature and develops a theology of creation. The author teaches at the University of Waikato in New Zealand.
Environmental Science and Theology in Dialogue
Environmental Science and Theology in Dialogue - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Environmental Science and Theology in Dialogue write by Russell A. Butkus. This book was released on 2011. Environmental Science and Theology in Dialogue available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This work demonstrates how understanding environmental science and theology can provide new resources for sustaining the Earth. With sidebars, discussion questions, and recommended readings, the book provides students with a text that nurtures both critical thinking and ethical action.
Bonhoeffer's Christocentric Theology and Fundamental Debates in Environmental Ethics
Bonhoeffer's Christocentric Theology and Fundamental Debates in Environmental Ethics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bonhoeffer's Christocentric Theology and Fundamental Debates in Environmental Ethics write by Steven C. van den Heuvel. This book was released on 2017-05-04. Bonhoeffer's Christocentric Theology and Fundamental Debates in Environmental Ethics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. There is widespread understanding of the close connection between religion and the ecological crisis, and that in order to amend this crisis, theological resources are needed. This monograph seeks to contribute to this endeavor by engaging the theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. His theology is particularly suitable in this context, due to its open-ended nature, and to the prophetic and radical nature of the questions he was prepared to ask--that is why there are many other attempts to contextualize Bonhoeffer's theology in areas that he himself has not directly written about. In this monograph, Steven van den Heuvel first of all addresses the question of how to translate Bonhoeffer's theology in a methodologically sound way. He settles on a modified form of the general method of correlation. Then, secondly, van den Heuvel sets out to describe five major concepts in Bonhoeffer's work, bringing these into critical interplay with discussions in environmental ethics and eco-theology. In making the correlations he thoroughly describes each concept, situating it in the historic and intellectual background of Bonhoeffer's time. He then transposes these concepts to contemporary environmental ethics, describing what contribution Bonhoeffer's theology can make.
