Redeeming the Time
A Political Theology of the Environment
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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9780826411358
Number of Pages: 244
Published: 01/06/1998
"A thoughtful and interesting contribution to environmental theology literature."
--Choice
"Richly informative and provocative."
--Review for Religious
"Stephen Bede Scharper has added a significant new book to the growing collection of Christian ecotheological offerings....an admirable job of summarizing the main strands of Christian environmental theologies and highlighting the most valuable contributions of each....heartfelt...There is much to celebrate in this book!...presents a comprehensible and accessible guide to the major varieties of what Scharper calls 'Christian ecological theology.'...In this book he succeeds not just in coherently summarizing a number of the most important voices in ecotheology, but also in giving us a blueprint for the changed consciousness necessary to motivate a conversion from our destructive earth-damaging behavior to a more earth-friendly way of living."
--Worldviews
Introduction: Knowing Our Place: Altered Landscapes and Altered Roles
1. Christian Theological Responses to the Ecological Crisis: An Overview
2. The Gaia Hypothesis: The Earth as a Living Organism
3. Process Theology: Intersubjectivity with Nature
4. The New Cosmology: The Universe as Context
5. Ecofeminism: From Patriarchy to Mutuality
6. Liberation Theology: The Greening of Solidarity
7. Contouring a Political Theology of the Environment
"Does an admirable job of summarizing the main strands of Christian environmental theologies and highlighting the most valuable contributions of each. There is much to celebrate in this book! Scharper, like all of the best contributors to the conversation on religion and ecology, is motivated by a passionate concern for the "groaning" of creation; no less obvious is his urgent desire to include the downtrodden humans of the earth in his analysis. In this book he suceeds, not just in coherently summarizing a number of the most important voices in ecotheology, but also in giving us a blueprint for the changed consciousness necessary to motivate a conversion from our destructive earth-damaging behavior to a more earth-friendly way of living."--Sanford Lakoff "Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture And Ecology "