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Ecologies of Grace - Environmental Ethics and Christian Theology (Hardcover)
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Ecologies of Grace - Environmental Ethics and Christian Theology (Hardcover)
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Christianity struggles to show how living on earth matters for
living with God. While people of faith increasingly seek practical
ways to respond to the environmental crisis, theology has had
difficulty contextualizing the crisis and interpreting the
responses.
In Ecologies of Grace, Willis Jenkins presents a field-shaping
introduction to Christian environmental ethics that offers
resources for renewing theology. Observing how religious
environmental practices often draw on concepts of grace, Jenkins
maps the way Christian environmental strategies draw from
traditions of salvation as they engage the problems of
environmental ethics. He then uses this new map to explore afresh
the ecological dimensions of Christian theology.
Jenkins first shows how Christian ethics uniquely frames
environmental issues, and then how those approaches both challenge
and reinhabit theological traditions. He identifies three major
strategies for making environmental problems intelligible to
Christian moral experience. Each one draws on a distinct pattern of
grace as it adapts a secular approach to environmental ethics. The
strategies of ecojustice, stewardship, and ecological spirituality
make environments matter for Christian experience by drawing on
patterns of sanctification, redemption, and deification.
He then confronts the problems of each of these strategies through
critical reappraisals of Thomas Aquinas, Karl Barth, and Sergei
Bulgakov. Each represents a soteriological tradition which Jenkins
explores as an ecology of grace, letting environmental questions
guide investigation into how nature becomes significant for
Christian experience.
By being particularly sensitive to the ways inwhich environmental
problems are made intelligible to Christian moral experience,
Jenkins guides his readers toward a fuller understanding of
Christianity and ecology. He not only makes sense of the variety of
Christian environmental ethics, but by showing how environmental
issues come to the heart of Christian experience, prepares fertile
ground for theological renewal.
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