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Ecological Hermeneutics

Biblical, Historical and Theological Perspectives

Ecological Hermeneutics

Biblical, Historical and Theological Perspectives

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9780567033048
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 02/06/2010
Width: 15.6 cm
Height: 23.4 cm

Leading scholars reflect critically on the kinds of appeal to the Bible that have been made in environmental ethics and ecotheoloogy and engage with biblical texts with a view towards exploring their contribution to an ecological ethics. The essays explore the kind of hermeneutic necessary for such engagement to be fruitful for contemporary theology and ethics. Crucial to such broad reflection is the bringing together of a range of perspectives: biblical studies, historical theology, hermeneutics, and theological ethics.

The thematic coherence of the book is provided by the running focus on the ways in which biblical texts have been, or might be, read. This volume is not about ecotheology, but is instead about ecological hermeneutics. Indeed, some essays show where biblical texts, or particular approaches in the history of interpretation, represent anthropocentric or even anti-ecological moves. One of the overall aims of the book is to suggest how, and why, an ecological hermeneutic might be developed, and the kinds of intepretive choices that are required in such a development.

Introduction (The Editors)

Section 1: Biblical perspectives

Section Introduction (The Editors)
1. The Creation Stories: their Ecological Potential (and Problems) (John Rogerson)

2. Land, Sin, Sacrifice: The ecological ethics of Leviticus (Jonathan Morgan)

3. Reading the Prophets from an Environmental Perspective (John Barton)
4. The Significance of the Wisdom Tradition in the Ecological Debate (Katharine Dell)

5. Jesus and the Gospels in Ecotheological Perspective (Richard Bauckham)
6. An Ecological Reading of Rom 8.19-22: Possibilities and Hesitations (Brendan Byrne)
7. Hellenistic Cosmology and the Letter to the Colossians: Towards an Ecological Hermeneutic (Vicky Balabanski)
8. Cosmic Catastrophe Imagery in the New Testament (Edward Adams)

Section 2: Insights from the history of interpretation

Section Introduction (The Editors)
9. In the Beginning: Irenaeus, Creation, and the Environment (Francis Watson)
10. The Fathers' Readings of Genesis 1 (Morwenna Ludlow)
11. Thomas Aquinas: Reading the Idea of Dominion in the Light of the Doctrine of Creation (Mark Wynn)
12. Reformation readings of the Creation stories (H. Paul Santmire)

13. Between Creation and Transfiguration: the environment in the Eastern Orthodox Tradition (Andrew Louth)

14. Karl Barth's Approach to Scripture and its Ecological Potential (Geoff Thompson)

15. Hans Urs von Balthasar and a Creation-centred Hermeneutic (David Moss)

16. Jürgen Moltmann on God and Creation (Jeremy Law)


Section 3: Contemporary hermeneutical possibilities

Section Introduction (The Editors)
17. The Greening of American Fundamentalism and Its Detractors (Harry Maier)

18. New Testament Eschatology and the Ecological Crisis in Theological and Ecclesial Perspective (Stephen Barton)
19. Sustainable Countryside (Tim Gorringe)

20. Towards a Theological Ecological Hermeneutic (Ernst Conradie)

Epilogue (The Editors)



Indexes

Index of Biblical Texts

Index of Modern Authors

Index of Subjects

Prof. David G. Horrell (University of Exeter, UK), Cherryl Hunt, Dr. Christopher Southgate (University of Exeter, UK)

David G. Horrell is Professor of New Testament Studies at the University of Exeter, UK. He is the author of several books, including An Introduction to the Study of Paul (T&T Clark, Second Edition 2006) and Solidarity and Difference (T&T Clark, 2005). He was the editor of the Journal for the Study of the New Testament from 2002-2007. He is an active member of the British New Testament Society, having chaired the Social World of the New Testament Seminar from 2001-2006, and is also a member of the Society for Biblical Literature (SBL) and Society for New Testament Studies (SNTS). He completed his PhD at Cambridge on Paul's Corinthian letters and the letter known as 1 Clement. Dr. Cherryl Hunt is a post-doctoral researcher in Theology at the University of Exeter Christopher Southgate is Research Fellow in Theology at the University of Exeter, UK. Francesca Stavrakopoulou is Senior Lecturer in Hebrew Bible at the University of Exeter, UK. Her research focuses on ancient Israelite religion, Judahite kingship, and history and ideology in the Hebrew Bible. She is the author of King Manasseh and Child Sacrifice: Biblical Distortions of Historical Realities (De Gruyter, 2004).

Ecological Hermeneutics is an important book on an important subject... a unique and useful contribution to the growing literature on ecology and the Bible... By bringing together highly competent essays in the fields of biblical exegesis, the history of interpretation, and theology, the editors offer us an invaluable set of resources for the ongoing task of reshaping Christian thought in light of the environmental crisis.--Sanford Lakoff