Liberating Life Contemporary Approaches to Ecological Theology

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