For Goodness Sake Principles Of An Ecotheology

Author : Robert Cuttino
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 226 pages
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Release : 2014-10-23
Category : Ecology
ISBN : 9781483418377

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For Goodness’ Sake: Principles of an Ecotheology by Robert Cuttino Pdf

There seems to be a huge disconnect between religion and the environment. In For Goodness' Sake: Principles of an Ecotheology, author Robert Cuttino challenges hyperindividualized, self-absorbed, contemporary theology that insists on our favored status. He proposes an "ecotheology." Cuttino considers, among other things, that individuals are not the greatest good, despite what we might think. He shows we may be, in fact, secondary in importance to the health of all environmental systems that make life possible. And individual humans are likely second in importance to the health of those economic systems that provide decent livelihoods and quality of life to all. Readers will also learn why just "greening" the Bible will not work. For Goodness' Sake: Principles of an Ecotheology isn't only about what will not work. Cuttino shows that especially for restoring the health of the most important system of all-the ethical sphere-there may be an imperative for Christianity.

Author : Robert Cuttino Cuttino (author)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 1901
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1483418383

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For Goodness' Sake by Robert Cuttino Cuttino (author) Pdf

Author : Ikechukwu Anthony KANU
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781665599603

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African Eco-Theology by Ikechukwu Anthony KANU Pdf

This piece articulates in a theological manner African earth-based spiritual traditions and innovative spiritual practices that are emerging in response to the painful realities of climate change, mass extinction, biodiversity loss, and the disruption of local and global ecosystems which have for long not received the attention that it deserves. It is in this sense that this Book of Readings titled African Eco-Theology: Meaning, Forms and Expressions will become one of the greatest ornaments and lights in the world of eco-theology as it responds to fundamental questions looming at the corridors of ecological discourses.

Author : Cheng-tian Kuo
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532658174

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Church, Capitalism, and Democracy in Post-Ecological Societies by Cheng-tian Kuo Pdf

Most ecotheologies build their arguments on the Bible’s creation-story and resurrection-narrative in the hope to save the ecology through spiritual meditation, reforming capitalism, and/or deliberative democracy. However, based on a Chinese Christian social scientist’s perspective, this book argues that few of these ecotheologies are theologically and empirically valid. Instead, it proposes a neuro-institutional post-ecology theology that builds on the major themes of the Last Judgment to refocus ecotheology toward evangelism and to adapt ecotheology to capitalism and democracy in order to embrace the “already but not yet” impacts of the inevitable total destruction of the ecology in the near future. The vanities in current ecotheologies are divided into religious, economic, and political categories. Among the major ones discussed in this book are the vanities of ecological meditation theology, leftist and rightist economic theologies, as well as ecotheologies of green authoritarianism and deliberative democracy. Even if these ecotheologies work perfectly as they were intended to, global ecological crises have passed the point of no return (i.e., post-ecology) and rendering all of them a global vanity. Based on a Chinese Christian social scientist’s perspective, this book proposes a moderate course of ecological spirituality, economic behaviors, and democratic actions, but with a radical devotion to crisis management and evangelism in preparation for the Doomsdays. This book is unique in its balanced interdisciplinary composition, employing theories from cognitive science, Christian theology, economics, and political science.

Author : Melissa Brotton
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498527941

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Ecotheology in the Humanities by Melissa Brotton Pdf

This book focuses on connections between biblical, literary, film, and music studies, as well as ecotheology and studies of how ecology and theology interact. This collection features chapters about creation care and the Sabbath, the sacramental approaches to earth care in the poetry of Wendell Berry and Sherman Alexie, classical and medieval cosmologies of J. R. R. Tolkien and Boethius, and Judeo-Christian perspectives on nonhuman suffering in the book of Romans, the literary works of C. S. Lewis, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Darren Aronofsky's film Noah.

Author : Nimi Wariboko
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780739136409

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The Principle of Excellence by Nimi Wariboko Pdf

This book disturbs the 'normal' and depoliticized meaning of virtue through a genealogical reading of the debates, conceptual struggles, and ambiguities that were cleansed by virtue ethicists to produce today's conception of excellence. This approach provides the narrative raw material to craft a new meaning of excellence as a creative actualization of the potentials for human prosperity. The fundamental question asked and addressed about excellence is how communities can use excellence as the organizing principle for political and economic development. The author explores how large-scale modern societies can be better administered in environments characterized by contingency and possibilities. At the very least, excellence in societal governance practice should involve the creation of possibilities for community and participation by all its members so that their potentialities can be drawn out for the common good. The book also explores the connection between excellence and creativity. If excellence is the drive toward actualization of potentialities for all human beings, it follows that human creativity is an adequate form for that movement. The author not only attempts to trace and clarify the mystique of the creative functions of persons and social groups, but also shows how the creative functions of human life can express the unconditional eros of divine creativity. In the process of doing all this, the author offers a fresh and provocative perspective of philosophy and theology's oldest concerns: the good, truth, beauty, justice, love, hope, and the eschatological New Creation.

Author : Seppo Kjellberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015050123952

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Urban Ecotheology by Seppo Kjellberg Pdf

The Christian message of emancipatory koinonia has very concrete applications within the environmental totality of the cities of both the industrialized world and developing countries. In this book the author uses the critical framework of a contextual theology to present a cosmological instead of an anthropocentric attitude towards the city and all that lives within it.

Author : Corinne Dale
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843844648

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The Natural World in the Exeter Book Riddles by Corinne Dale Pdf

An investigation of the non-human world in the Exeter Book riddles, drawing on the exciting new approaches of eco-criticism and eco-theology.

Author : Melissa Brotton
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498527910

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Ecotheology and Nonhuman Ethics in Society by Melissa Brotton Pdf

This book promotes Christian ecology and animal ethics from the perspectives of the Bible, science, and the Judeo-Christian tradition. It covers diverse topics such as developing Christian virtue ethics, assisting species threatened by climate change, liturgical and hymnal ecologies, past and present Catholic ecological thinking, and Jesus and the animals in the Gospel of Mark.

Author : Daniel Patte
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 753 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666734836

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The Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity, Volume One by Daniel Patte Pdf

The Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity is an authoritative reference guide that enables students, their teachers, Christian clergy, and general readers alike to reflect critically upon all aspects of Christianity from its origins to the present day. Written by a team of 828 scholars and practitioners from around the world, the volume reflects the plurality of Christianity throughout its history. Key features of The Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity: •Provides a survey of the history of Christianity in the world, on each continent, and in each nation •Offers a presentation of the Christian beliefs and practices of all major Christian traditions •Highlights the different understandings of Christian beliefs and practices in different historical, cultural, religious, denominational, and secular contexts •Includes entries on methodology and the plurality of approaches that are used in the study of Christianity •Respects each Christian tradition by providing self-presentations of Christianity in each country or Christian tradition •Includes clusters of entries on beliefs and practices, each examining the understanding of a given Christian belief or practice in different historical and contemporary contexts •Presents the relationship and interaction of Christianity with other religious traditions in the world •Provides, on a Web site (http://hdl.handle.net/1803/3906), a full bibliography covering all topics discussed in the signed articles of this volume

Author : Daniel Patte
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 1420 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532689437

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The Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity, Two Volume Set by Daniel Patte Pdf

The Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity is an authoritative reference guide that enables students, their teachers, Christian clergy, and general readers alike to reflect critically upon all aspects of Christianity from its origins to the present day. Written by a team of 828 scholars and practitioners from around the world, the volume reflects the plurality of Christianity throughout its history. Key features of The Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity: •Provides a survey of the history of Christianity in the world, on each continent, and in each nation •Offers a presentation of the Christian beliefs and practices of all major Christian traditions •Highlights the different understandings of Christian beliefs and practices in different historical, cultural, religious, denominational, and secular contexts •Includes entries on methodology and the plurality of approaches that are used in the study of Christianity •Respects each Christian tradition by providing self-presentations of Christianity in each country or Christian tradition •Includes clusters of entries on beliefs and practices, each examining the understanding of a given Christian belief or practice in different historical and contemporary contexts •Presents the relationship and interaction of Christianity with other religious traditions in the world •Provides, on a Web site (http://hdl.handle.net/1803/3906), a full bibliography covering all topics discussed in the signed articles of this volume

Author : Chris Boesel
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498200356

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Reading Karl Barth by Chris Boesel Pdf

Reading Karl Barth provides a cluster of major themes and signposts by which to orient one’s reading of Barth’s theology. It assists readers in (a) recognizing and understanding what Barth is doing theologically and why and how he is doing it; and (b) assessing the extent to which Barth’s theology is or is not a fruitful resource for their own context, as individuals and communities of faith. The distinctive value of the book’s approach lies in its demonstration of the ways in which Barth’s theology—in both his own time and in ours—“cuts both ways,” to the theological left and right. This involves identifying various theological logics that constitute the diverse and conflictual landscape of shared Christian identity and faith—both in Barth’s time and in our own—enabling readers to recognize not only where and why Barth is located in that landscape, but also where and why they themselves are located, together with their respective faith communities. This makes the book of particular interest to individuals and communities of faith who feel themselves homeless in today’s polemical polarization between theological conservatives and theological progressives, especially those who are hungry for the possibility of a progressive socio-political vision of the gospel rooted in relatively traditional confessions of Christian faith.

Author : Whitney Bauman,Richard Bohannon,Kevin J. O'Brien
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-04
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781136931468

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Grounding Religion by Whitney Bauman,Richard Bohannon,Kevin J. O'Brien Pdf

How do religion and the natural world interact with one another? Grounding Religion introduces students to the growing field of religion and ecology, exploring a series of questions about how the religious world influences and is influenced by ecological systems. Grounding Religion examines the central concepts of ‘religion’ and ‘ecology’ using analysis, dialogical exchanges by established scholars in the field, and case studies. The first textbook to encourage critical thinking about the relationships between the environment and religious beliefs and practices, it also provides an expansive overview of the academic field of religion and ecology as it has emerged in the past forty years. The contributors introduce students to new ways of thinking about environmental degradation and the responses of religious people. Each chapter brings a new perspective on key concepts such as sustainability, animals, gender, economics, environmental justice, globalization and place. Discussion questions and contemporary case studies focusing on topics such as Muslim farmers in the US and Appalachian environmental struggles help students apply the perspective to current events, other media, and their own interests.

Author : David Mevorach Seidenberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107081338

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Kabbalah and Ecology by David Mevorach Seidenberg Pdf

Kabbalah and Ecology resets the conversation about ecology and the Abrahamic traditions. David Mevorach Seidenberg challenges the anthropocentric reading of the Torah, showing that a radically different orientation to the more-than-human world of nature leads to a more accurate interpretation of scripture, rabbinic texts, Maimonides, and Kabbalah.

Author : Birgit Weyel,Wilhelm Gräb,Emmanuel Lartey,Cas Wepener
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110618396

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International Handbook of Practical Theology by Birgit Weyel,Wilhelm Gräb,Emmanuel Lartey,Cas Wepener Pdf

Practical theology has outgrown its traditional pastoral paradigm. The articles in this handbook recognize that faith, spirituality, and lived religion, within and beyond institutional communities, refer to realms of cultures, ritual practices, and symbolic orders, whose boundaries are not clearly defined and whose contents are shifting. The International Handbook of Practical Theology offers insightful transcultural conceptions of religion and religious matters gathered from various cultures and traditions of faith. The first section presents ‘concepts of religion’. Chapters have to do with considerations of the conceptualizing of religion in the fields of ‘anthropology’, ‘community’, ‘family’, ‘institution’, ‘law’, ‘media’, and ‘politics’ among others. The second section is dedicated to case studies of ‘religious practices’ from the perspective of their actors. The third section presents major theoretical discourses that explore the globally significant diversity and multiplicity of religion. Altogether, sixty-one authors from different parts of the world encourage a rethinking of religious practice in an expanded, transcultural, globalized, and postcolonial world.