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Based on case studies, the book creates a multidisciplinary
conversation on the gendered vulnerabilities resulting from
extractive industries and toxic pollution, and also charts the
resilience and courage of women as they resist polluting
industries, fight for clean water and seek to protect the land.
While ecumenical in scope, the book takes its departure from the
concept of integral ecology introduced in Pope Francis’
encyclical Laudato Si’. The first three sections of the book
focus on the social and ecological challenges facing minoritized
women and their communities that are related to mining, pollutants
and biodiversity loss, and toxicity. The final section of the book
focuses on the possibilities and obstacles to global solidarity.
All chapters offer a cross disciplinary response to a particular
local situation, tracing the ways ecological destruction, resulting
from extraction and toxic contamination, affects the lives of women
and their communities. The book pays careful attention to the
political, economic, and legal structures facilitating these
life-threatening challenges. Each section concludes with a response
from a ‘practitioner’ in the field, representing an ecclesial
organization or NGO focused on eco-justice advocacy in the global
South, or minority communities in the global North.
Planetary Solidarity brings together leading Latina, womanist,
Asian American, Anglican American, South American, Asian, European,
and African woman theologians on the issues of doctrine, women, and
climate justice. Because women make up the majority of the world's
poor and tend to be more dependent on natural resources for their
livelihoods and survival, they are more vulnerable when it comes to
climate-related changes and catastrophes. Representing a subfield
of feminist theology that uses doctrine as interlocutor, this book
ask how Christian doctrine might address the interconnected
suffering of women and the earth in an age of climate change. While
doctrine has often stifled change, it also forms the thread that
weaves Christian communities together. Drawing on postcolonial
ecofeminist/womanist analysis and representing different ecclesial
and denominational traditions, contributors use doctrine to
envision possibilities for a deep solidarity with the earth and one
another while addressing the intersection of gender, race, class,
and ethnicity. The book is organized around the following
doctrines: creation, the triune God, anthropology, sin,
incarnation, redemption, the Holy Spirit, ecclesiology, and
eschatology.
The T&T Clark Handbook of Christian Theology and Climate Change
entails a wide-ranging conversation between Christian theology and
various other discourses on climate change. Given the far-reaching
complicity of "North Atlantic Christianity" in anthropogenic
climate change, the question is whether it can still collaborate
with and contribute to ongoing mitigation and adaptation efforts.
The main essays in this volume are written by leading scholars from
within North Atlantic Christianity and addressed primarily to
readers in the same context; these essays are critically engaged by
respondents situated in other geographic regions, minority
communities, non-Christian traditions, or non-theological
disciplines. Structured in seven main parts, the handbook explores:
1) the need for collaboration with disciplines outside of Christian
theology to address climate change; 2) the need to find common
moral ground for such collaboration; 3) the difficulties posed by
collaborating with other Christian traditions from within; 4) the
questions that emerge from such collaboration for understanding the
story of God's work; and 5) God's identity and character; 6) the
implications of such collaboration for ecclesial praxis; and 7)
concluding reflections examining whether this volume does justice
to issues of race, gender, class, other animals, religious
diversity, geographical divides and carbon mitigation. This rich
ecumenical, cross-cultural conversation provides a comprehensive
and in-depth engagement with the theological and moral challenges
raised by anthropogenic climate change.
Kathryn Tanner is undoubtedly one of the most important
contemporary North American theologians. From landmark studies in
systematic and constructive theology to economics, Tanner's work is
a contribution of inestimable value, hallmarked by its depth,
precision, provocativeness, and grace. Unifying the immense scope
of her work is the particular vision of God's self-gift: an
internal, dynamic, communal reality that is expressed outward in
acts of love and generosity that are creation, incarnation, and
capacious life in the Spirit. This vision, as the grounding matrix
of Tanner's theology, has been extended beyond the disciplinary
boundaries of theology in constructive explorations of economics,
social and political theory, cultural studies, and ethics. This
volume celebrates the vision and breadth of Tanner's unique
contribution. Essays by established scholars, colleagues, and
former students trace out the key loci and themes to generate
constructive and ecumenical conversation that presents Tanner as an
important, contemporary public theologian.
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