Liberating Life
Birch, Charles
Liberating Life Contemporary Approaches to Ecological Theology - Oregon Wipf & Stock Publishers 2007 - 293p
includes index and biblioraphy
1. Resources from scripture and Tradition..........7 Biblical views of Nature .....9 Covenant and creation ....27 New testament foundations for Understanding the creation......37 A sacramental Approach to Environmental Issues ........46 2. New Ethical Horizons .........55 Christian Obligation for the Liberation of Nature ....57 Christianity and Animal Rights : The Challenge and Promise ..73 Ecofeminism, reverence for life, and feminist theological ethics ........88 3. Voices from africa, Asia, and Latin America .....109 Latin America adn the need for a life-liberating theology .111 The Effects on Korea of Un-Ecological Theology......125 Comunity of life: Ecological Theology in African Perspective ............137 4. New Swnsibilities ....149 The Spirituality of the Earth ......151 Religious and Cosmic Homelessness: Some environmental impliation ......159 Chance, purpose, and the order of Nature .........182 Imaging a Theology of Nature : The world as God`s Body .......201 Revisioning God and the self: Lessons from Buddhism .......228 5. New Directions for the church ......259 Afterword. the role of Theology of Nature in the Church ............261
9781556351877 2117
C81 / B531
Liberating Life Contemporary Approaches to Ecological Theology - Oregon Wipf & Stock Publishers 2007 - 293p
includes index and biblioraphy
1. Resources from scripture and Tradition..........7 Biblical views of Nature .....9 Covenant and creation ....27 New testament foundations for Understanding the creation......37 A sacramental Approach to Environmental Issues ........46 2. New Ethical Horizons .........55 Christian Obligation for the Liberation of Nature ....57 Christianity and Animal Rights : The Challenge and Promise ..73 Ecofeminism, reverence for life, and feminist theological ethics ........88 3. Voices from africa, Asia, and Latin America .....109 Latin America adn the need for a life-liberating theology .111 The Effects on Korea of Un-Ecological Theology......125 Comunity of life: Ecological Theology in African Perspective ............137 4. New Swnsibilities ....149 The Spirituality of the Earth ......151 Religious and Cosmic Homelessness: Some environmental impliation ......159 Chance, purpose, and the order of Nature .........182 Imaging a Theology of Nature : The world as God`s Body .......201 Revisioning God and the self: Lessons from Buddhism .......228 5. New Directions for the church ......259 Afterword. the role of Theology of Nature in the Church ............261
9781556351877 2117
C81 / B531