Ecological Hermeneutics: Biblical, Historical and Theological Perspectives

✍ Scribed by David G. Horrell (editor), Cherryl Hunt (editor), Christopher Southgate (editor), Francesca Stavrakopoulou (editor)

• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 346
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Leading scholars reflect critically on the kinds of appeal to the Bible that have been made in environmental ethics and ecotheology.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
Contributors
Abbreviations
Introduction
PART I: BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVES
Introduction to Part I
Chapter 1. THE CREATION STORIES: THEIR ECOLOGICAL POTENTIAL AND PROBLEMS
Chapter 2. SACRIFICE IN LEVITICUS: ECO-FRIENDLY RITUAL OR UNHOLY WASTE?
Chapter 3. READING THE PROPHETS FROM AN ENVIRONMENTAL PERSPECTIVE
Chapter 4. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE WISDOM TRADITION IN THE ECOLOGICAL DEBATE
Chapter 5. READING THE SYNOPTIC GOSPELS ECOLOGICALLY
Chapter 6. AN ECOLOGICAL READING OF ROM. 8.19-22: POSSIBILITIES AND HESITATIONS
Chapter 7. HELLENISTIC COSMOLOGY AND THE LETTER TO THE COLOSSIANS: TOWARDS AN ECOLOGICAL HERMENEUTIC
Chapter 8. RETRIEVING THE EARTH FROM THE CONFLAGRATION: 2 PETER 3.5-13 AND THE ENVIRONMENT
PART II: INSIGHTS FROM THE HISTORY OF INTERPRETATION
Introduction to Part II
Chapter 9. IN THE BEGINNING: IRENAEUS, CREATION AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Chapter 10. POWER AND DOMINION: PATRISTIC INTERPRETATIONS OF GENESIS 1
Chapter 11. THOMAS AQUINAS: READING THE IDEA OF DOMINION IN THE LIGHT OF THE DOCTRINE OF CREATION
Chapter 12. MARTIN LUTHER, THE WORD OF GOD AND NATURE: REFORMATION HERMENEUTICS IN CONTEXT
Chapter 13. ‘REMAINING LOYAL TO THE EARTH’: HUMANITY, GOD’S OTHER CREATURES AND THE BIBLE IN KARL BARTH
Chapter 14. HANS URS VON BALTHASAR: BEGINNING WITH BEAUTY
Chapter 15. BETWEEN CREATION AND TRANSFIGURATION: THE ENVIRONMENT IN THE EASTERN ORTHODOX TRADITION
Chapter 16. JÜRGEN MOLTMANN’S ECOLOGICAL HERMENEUTICS
PART III: CONTEMPORARY HERMENEUTICAL POSSIBILITIES
Introduction to Part III
Chapter 17. GREEN MILLENNIALISM: AMERICAN EVANGELICALS, ENVIRONMENTALISM AND THE BOOK OF REVELATION
Chapter 18. NEW TESTAMENT ESCHATOLOGY AND THE ECOLOGICAL CRISIS IN THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIAL PERSPECTIVE
Chapter 19. KEEPING THE COMMANDMENTS: THE MEANING OF SUSTAINABLE COUNTRYSIDE
Chapter 20. WHAT ON EARTH IS AN ECOLOGICAL HERMENEUTICS? SOME BROAD PARAMETERS
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