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The Bible and the Environment - Towards a Critical Ecological Biblical Theology (Paperback)
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The Bible and the Environment - Towards a Critical Ecological Biblical Theology (Paperback)
Series: Biblical Challenges in the Contemporary World
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Environmental issues have in recent years come to the centre stage
of political and ethical debate. This is a crucial topic to engage
in this series. Moreover, there has long been the charge,
classically formulated by Lynn White Jr, that the biblical and
Christian tradition has legitimated and encouraged humanity's
aggressive domination of nature to serve human interests. Biblical
visions of the future, with destruction for the earth and rescue
for the elect, might also seem to discourage any concern for the
earth's future or the welfare of future generations. In this
volume, David Horrell sets out this context for discussion, and
illustrates the diverse ways in which the Bible has been
interpreted in relation to issues of ecology and the environment. A
wide range of biblical texts are discussed, from "Genesis" to
"Revelation", and competing interpretations are contrasted and
evaluated. This analysis shows that the Bible provides a thoroughly
ambivalent legacy, which cannot straightforwardly provide positive
teaching on care for the environment, but nor can it simply be seen
as an anti-ecological book. Finally, then, Horrell argues that what
is needed is the explicit development of an 'ecological
hermeneutic'. This involves constructing certain interpretative
lenses which both arise from the engagement between our
contemporary context and the biblical text and also generate a new
reading of the biblical tradition appropriate to face the
challenges of the ecological issues that face humanity at the
beginning of the third millennium.
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