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Ecological hermeneutics : biblical, historical and theological perspectives / edited by David G. Horrell, Cherryl Hunt, Christopher Southgate, and Francesca Stavrakopoulou.

Contributor(s): Horrell, David G | Hunt, Cherryl | Southgate, Christopher, 1953- | Stavrakopoulou, Francesca
Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; New York : T & T Clark, [2010]Copyright date: ©2010Description: xii, 333 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780567033048 (pbk.); 056703304X (pbk.)Subject(s): Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc | Human ecology -- Biblical teaching | Human ecology -- Religious aspects -- Christianity | Environmental ethics | Environmental protection -- Religious aspects -- ChristianityBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Biblical perspectives -- The creation stories : their ecological potential and problems / John W. Rogerson -- Sacrifice in Leviticus : eco-friendly ritual or unholy waste? / Jonathan Morgan -- Reading the Prophets from an environmental perspective / John Barton -- The significance of the Wisdom tradition in the ecological debate / Katharine J. Dell -- Reading the Synoptic Gospels ecologically / Richard Bauckham -- An ecological reading of Rom. 8.19-22 : possibilities and hesitations / Brendan Byrne -- Hellenistic cosmology and the letter to the Colossians : towards an ecological hermeneutic / Vicky S. Balabanski -- Retrieving the earth from the conflagration : 2 Peter 3.5-13 and the environment / Edward Adams -- Insights from the history of interpretation -- In the beginning : Irenaeus, creation and the environment / Francis Watson -- Power and dominion : patristic interpretations of Genesis I / Morwenna Ludlow -- Thomas Aquinas : reading the idea of dominion in the light of the doctrine of creation / Mark Wynn -- Martin Luther, the Word of God and nature : Reformation hermeneutics in context / H. Paul Santmire -- 'Remaining loyal to the earth' : humanity, God's other creatures and the Bible in Karl Barth / Geoff Thompson -- Hans Urs von Balthasar : beginning with beauty / David Moss -- Between creation and transfiguration : the environment in the Eastern Orthodox tradition / Andrew Louth -- Jürgen Moltmann's ecological hermeneutics / Jeremy Law -- Contemporary hermeneutical possibilities -- Green millennialism : American evangelicals, environmentalism, and the Book of Revelation / Harry O. Maier -- New Testament eschatology and the ecological crisis in theological and ecclesial perspective / Stephen C. Barton -- Keeping the commandments : the meaning of sustainable countryside / Tim Gorringe -- What on earth is an ecological hermeneutics? Some broad parameters / Ernst M. Conradie.

"Collection of essays ... from a collaborative research project at the University of Exeter, UK, on 'Uses of the Bible in environmental ethics'"--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Part I. Biblical perspectives -- The creation stories : their ecological potential and problems / John W. Rogerson -- Sacrifice in Leviticus : eco-friendly ritual or unholy waste? / Jonathan Morgan -- Reading the Prophets from an environmental perspective / John Barton -- The significance of the Wisdom tradition in the ecological debate / Katharine J. Dell -- Reading the Synoptic Gospels ecologically / Richard Bauckham -- An ecological reading of Rom. 8.19-22 : possibilities and hesitations / Brendan Byrne -- Hellenistic cosmology and the letter to the Colossians : towards an ecological hermeneutic / Vicky S. Balabanski -- Retrieving the earth from the conflagration : 2 Peter 3.5-13 and the environment / Edward Adams -- Part II. Insights from the history of interpretation -- In the beginning : Irenaeus, creation and the environment / Francis Watson -- Power and dominion : patristic interpretations of Genesis I / Morwenna Ludlow -- Thomas Aquinas : reading the idea of dominion in the light of the doctrine of creation / Mark Wynn -- Martin Luther, the Word of God and nature : Reformation hermeneutics in context / H. Paul Santmire -- 'Remaining loyal to the earth' : humanity, God's other creatures and the Bible in Karl Barth / Geoff Thompson -- Hans Urs von Balthasar : beginning with beauty / David Moss -- Between creation and transfiguration : the environment in the Eastern Orthodox tradition / Andrew Louth -- Jürgen Moltmann's ecological hermeneutics / Jeremy Law -- Part III. Contemporary hermeneutical possibilities -- Green millennialism : American evangelicals, environmentalism, and the Book of Revelation / Harry O. Maier -- New Testament eschatology and the ecological crisis in theological and ecclesial perspective / Stephen C. Barton -- Keeping the commandments : the meaning of sustainable countryside / Tim Gorringe -- What on earth is an ecological hermeneutics? Some broad parameters / Ernst M. Conradie.

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