New Climate for Theology God, the World, and Global Warming

Name: New Climate for Theology God, the World, and Global Warming
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780800662714

ISBN-10: 0800662717

ISBN-13: 9780800662714

Edition: 2008

Authors: Sallie McFague

List price: $20.00

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Buy used: $8.24

Buy new: $33.31

Marketplace

4 new & used from $3.43

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

Climate change promises monumental changes to human and other planetary life in the next generations. Yet government, business, and individuals have been largely in denial of the possibility that global warming may put our species on the road to extinction. Further, says Sallie McFague, we have failed to see the real root of our behavioral troubles in an economic model that actually reflects distorted religious views of the person. At its heart, she maintains, global warming occurs because we lack an appropriate understanding of ourselves as inextricably bound to the planet and its systems. A New Climate for Theology not only traces the distorted notion of unlimited desire that fuels our…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress, Publishers
Publication date: 4/3/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 204
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English




The Science and Its Significance for Theology



Climate Change: The Evidence and Consequences



Global Warming: A Theological Problem



Exploring God and the World within Climate Change



Who Are We? Ecological Anthropology



Who Is God? Creation and Providence



How Shall We Live? Christianity and Planetary Economics



Serving God and Living in the City within Climate Change



Why We Worship: Praise and Compassion as Intimations of Transcendence



Where We Live: Urban Ecotheology



Despair and Hope within Climate Change



Is a Different World Possible? Human Dignity and the Integrity of Creation



"The Dearest Freshness Deep Down Things": The Holy Spirit and Climate Change


Epilogue


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index