Redeeming the Time: A Political Theology of the Environment"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> |
Contents
Christian Theological Responses to the Ecological Crisis An Overview | 23 |
The Gaia Hypothesis The Earth as a Living Organism | 53 |
Process Theology Intersubjectivity with Nature | 75 |
The New Cosmology The Universe as Context | 109 |
Ecofeminism From Patriarchy to Mutuality | 132 |
Liberation Theology The Greening of Solidarity | 165 |
Contouring a Political Theology of the Environment | 184 |
Notes | 193 |
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Page 6 - See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.