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Ecological Hermeneutics reflects critically on the kinds of appeal to the Bible that have been made in environmental ethics and ecotheoloogy; engages with biblical texts with a view towards exploring their contribution to an ecological ethics; and explores the kind of hermeneutic necessary for such engagement to be fruitful for contemporary theology and ethics. Crucial to such broad reflection is the bringing together of a range of perspectives: biblical studies, historical theology, hermeneutics, and theological ethics.
The thematic coherence of the book is provided by the running focus on the ways in which biblical texts have been, or might be, read. This is not a volume on ecotheology; but rather on ecological hermeneutics. Indeed, some essays may show where biblical texts, or particular approaches in the history of interpretation, represent anthropocentric or even anti-ecological moves. One of the overall aims of the book will be to suggest how, and why, an ecological hermeneutic might be developed, and the kinds of intepretive choices that are required in such a development.
Introduction (The Editors)
Section 1: Biblical perspectives
Section Introduction (The Editors)
1. The Creation Stories: their Ecological Potential (and Problems) (John Rogerson)
2. Land, Sin, Sacrifice: The ecological ethics of Leviticus (Jonathan Morgan)
3. Reading the Prophets from an Environmental Perspective (John Barton)
4. The Significance of the Wisdom Tradition in the Ecological Debate (Katharine Dell)
5. Jesus and the Gospels in Ecotheological Perspective (Richard Bauckham)
6. An Ecological Reading of Rom 8.19-22: Possibilities and Hesitations (Brendan Byrne)
7. Hellenistic Cosmology and the Letter to the Colossians: Towards an Ecological Hermeneutic (Vicky Balabanski)
8. Cosmic Catastrophe Imagery in the New Testament (Edward Adams)
Section 2: Insights from the history of interpretation
Section Introduction (The Editors)
9. In the Beginning: Irenaeus, Creation, and the Environment (Francis Watson)
10. The Fathers’ Readings of Genesis 1 (Morwenna Ludlow)
11. Thomas Aquinas: Reading the Idea of Dominion in the Light of the Doctrine of Creation (Mark Wynn)
12. Reformation readings of the Creation stories (H. Paul Santmire)
13. Between Creation and Transfiguration: the environment in the Eastern Orthodox Tradition (Andrew Louth)
14. Karl Barth’s Approach to Scripture and its Ecological Potential (Geoff Thompson)
15. Hans Urs von Balthasar and a Creation-centred Hermeneutic (David Moss)
16. Jürgen Moltmann on God and Creation (Jeremy Law)
Section 3: Contemporary hermeneutical possibilities
Section Introduction (The Editors)
17. The Greening of American Fundamentalism and Its Detractors (Harry Maier)
18. New Testament Eschatology and the Ecological Crisis in Theological and Ecclesial Perspective (Stephen Barton)
19. Sustainable Countryside (Tim Gorringe)
20. Towards a Theological Ecological Hermeneutic (Ernst Conradie)
Epilogue (The Editors)
Indexes
Index of Biblical Texts
Index of Modern Authors
Index of Subjects
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David G Horrell
Book Format
Paperback
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published
June 2010
Weight
486g
Page Count
336
Dimensions
15.5 x 23.2 x 2.1 cm
ISBN
9780567033048
ISBN-10
056703304X
Eden Code
2745095
