Ecotheology in the Humanities (eBook, ePUB)

An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding the Divine and Nature
Redaktion: Brotton, Melissa

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a collection of essays about the interaction between God, humans, and nature in the context of the environmental challenges and Biblical studies. Chapters include topics on creation care and Sabbath, sacramental approaches to earth care, classical and medieval cosmologies, ecotheodicy, how we understand the problem of nonhuman suffering in a world controlled by a good God, ecojustice, and how humans help to alleviate nonhuman suffering. The book seeks to provide a way to understand Judeo-Christian perspectives on human-to-nonhuman interaction through Biblical, literary, cultural, film, and music studies, and as such, offers an interdisciplinary approach with emphasis on the humanities, which provides a broader platform for ecotheology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498527941
• Artikelnr.: 45104478

Autorenporträt

Melissa Brotton is assistant professor of English and communications at La Sierra University.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
John Cobb Jr. Introduction
"Heaven and Nature Sing": Introduction
Melissa Brotton Section I: Creation Care and the Sabbath Chapter 1
Friends of the Creator: A Theological Foundation for Earth
keeping Ethics
Ginger Harwood Chapter 2
  A Biblical Land Ethic? A Response to Aldo Leopold
Ellen Bernstein Chapter 3
Sanctification as Impetus for Creation Care in Adventism 
Young
Chun Kim Section II: Sacramental Approaches Chapter 4
Ecotheology and Enchantment: How Wendell Berry Helps Re
vision the World
Doug Sikkema Chapter 5
Salmon Theology and Spokane Falls: Catholicism and Restorative Justice in Sherman Alexie's Poetry
Chad Wriglesworth Section III: Classical and Medieval Cosmologies and Music Chapter 6
"All Nature Sings and Round Me Rings the Music of the Spheres": Christianity and the Transmission of a Cosmic Ecomusicology
David Kendall Chapter 7
Stewards of Arda: Creation and Sustenance in J.R.R. Tolkien's Legendarium
Samuel McBride Section IV: Ecotheod