Befriending the Earth

Befriending the Earth
Author: Thomas Berry
Publisher: Mystic, Conn. : Twenty-Third Publications
Total Pages: 176
Release: 1991
Genre: Reference
ISBN:

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Denis Edwards in His Own Words

Denis Edwards in His Own Words
Author: ATF Press
Publisher: ATF Press
Total Pages: 582
Release: 2020-05-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1925643360

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Denis Edwards was a theoloian concerned with the science and religion discourse and eco-theology. He died in March 2019. This book is a collection of his till now unpusblished talks and essays.

This Sacred Earth

This Sacred Earth
Author: Roger S. Gottlieb
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 782
Release: 2003-11-07
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 113691546X

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Updated with nearly forty new selections to reflect the tremendous growth and transformation of scholarly, theological, and activist religious environmentalism, the second edition of This Sacred Earth is an unparalleled resource for the study of religion's complex relationship to the environment.

Integral Ecology for a More Sustainable World

Integral Ecology for a More Sustainable World
Author: Dennis O'Hara
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 415
Release: 2019-10-25
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1498580068

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Laudato Si’ insists on a revolutionary human response to the public challenges of our time concerning the ecological crisis. The volume takes up the revolutionary spirit of Pope Francis and speaks to the economic, technological, political, educational, and religious changes needed to overcome the fragile relationships between humans and Earth. This volume identifies various systemic factors that have produced the anthropogenic ecological crisis that threatens the planet and uses the ethical vision of Laudato Si’ to promote practical responses that foster fundamental changes in humanity’s relationships with Earth and each other. The essays address not only the immediate behavioral changes needed in individual human lives, but also the deeper, societal changes required if human communities are to live sustainable lives within Earth’s integral ecology. Thus, this volume intentionally focuses on a plurality of cultural contexts and proposes solutions to problems encountered in a variety of global contexts. Accordingly, the contributors to this volume are scholars from a breadth of interdisciplinary and cultural backgrounds, each exploring an ethical theme from the encyclical and proposing systemic changes to address deeply entrenched injustices. Collectively, their essays examine the social, political, economic, gender, scientific, technological, educational, and spiritual challenges of our time as these relate to the ecological crisis.

Minding Creation

Minding Creation
Author: Joanna Leidenhag
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2020-12-10
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0567696243

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Are humans the only creatures that can appreciate God's creation? What if consciousness is spread more widely across all things? This volume examines panpsychism through the lens of Christian doctrine. Minding Creation is the first substantial examination of what a panpsychist theory of consciousness implies for key theological debates concerning God's presence and action, evolution and the origin of the soul, human uniqueness and the environmental crisis. Joanna Leidenhag develops a theological panpsychism that is based on an exceptionally wide range of scholarship. Minding Creation draws on the theologies of historical figures such as Augustine of Hippo, Gottfried von Leibniz and others, in order to create a critical and constructive conversation with contemporary analytic philosophers of mind, such as Thomas Nagel, Galen Strawson, and David J. Chalmers. Leidenhag also discusses key concepts and issues, such as emergence theory, divine action, and ecology. She concludes that God created a universe from nothing which is filled with indwelling powers, sacramental value, and intrinsic experience. This is a creation in which the Holy Spirit is internally present at every point, a creation that worships God, and a creation that human beings must protect and lead in praise.

Participatory Research in More-than-Human Worlds

Participatory Research in More-than-Human Worlds
Author: Michelle Bastian
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2016-12-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1317340884

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Socio-environmental crises are currently transforming the conditions for life on this planet, from climate change, to resource depletion, biodiversity loss and long-term pollutants. The vast scale of these changes, affecting land, sea and air have prompted calls for the ‘ecologicalisation’ of knowledge. This book adopts a much needed ‘more-than-human’ framework to grasp these complexities and challenges. It contains multidisciplinary insights and diverse methodological approaches to question how to revise, reshape and invent methods in order to work with non-humans in participatory ways. The book offers a framework for thinking critically about the promises and potentialities of participation from within a more-than-human paradigm, and opens up trajectories for its future development. It will be of interest to those working in the environmental humanities, animal studies, science and technology studies, ecology, and anthropology.

A Theology for the Earth

A Theology for the Earth
Author: Anne Marie Dalton
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 234
Release: 1999
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0776604783

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While many feel that something must be done, few perceive the state of the ecological crisis as a "profound religious problem." While Thomas Berry sought to fire the imagination and motivate his listener to action, Bernard Lonergan was absorbed by the growing gulf between traditional Christian theology and its relevance to modern problems. This book brings together the work of these dynamic thinkers and examines their mutual contribution to theology for our time and for our planet.

Gift and Response

Gift and Response
Author: Carolyn Thomas
Publisher: Paulist Press
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1994
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780809135103

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Presents contemporary issues as content for a modern spirituality based on Scripture.