Christianity Volume

Religions of the World and Ecology Series

Christianity and Ecology Volume

Dieter T. Hessel and Rosemary Radford Ruether, eds.

 

Table of Contents

 

 

Preface Lawrence E. Sullivan
 
Series Foreword Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim
 
Introduction “Current Thought on Christianity and Ecology”
Dieter T. Hessel and Rosemary Radford Ruether
 
Chapter 1

Creator, Christ, and Spirit in Ecological Perspective
“Losing and Finding Creation in the Christian Tradition”
Elizabeth A. Johnson

Response to Elizabeth A. Johnson”
Gordon D. Kaufman

An Ecological Christology: Does Christianity Have It?”
Sallie McFague

Response to Sallie McFague”
Kwok Pui-lan

The Wounded Spirit as the Basis for Hope in an Age of Radical Ecology”
Mark I. Wallace

Response to Mark I. Wallace: Another View of the Spirit’s Work”
Eleanor Rae

The World of the Icon and Creation: An Orthodox Perspective on Ecology and Pneumatology”
John Chryssavgis

Ecofeminism: The Challenge to Theology”
Rosemary Radford Ruether

Response to Rosemary Radford Ruether: Ecofeminism and Theology—Challenges, Confrontations, and Reconstructions”
Heather Eaton

 
Chapter 2

Vision, Vocation, and Virtues for the Earth Community
“Christianity’s Role in the Earth Project”
Thomas Berry

The Human Vocation: Origins and Transformations in Christian Traditions”
Theodore Hiebert

Christian Ecological Virtue Ethics: Transforming a Tradition”
Louke van Wensveen

Response to Louke van Wensveen: Christian Ecological Virtue Ethics: A Constructive Proposal”
Steven Bouma-Prediger

No More Sea: The Lost Chaos of the Eschaton”
Catherine Keller

Response to Catherine Keller”
Mary Ann Hinsdale

River of Life in God’s New Jerusalem: An Eschatological Vision for Earth’s Future”
Barbara R. Rossing

 
Chapter 3

The Universal and Particular in Ethics and Spirituality
“Seeking Moral Norms in Nature: Natural Law and Ecological Responsibility”
James A. Nash

Response to James A. Nash”
Cristina L. H. Traina

The Moral Status of Otherkind in Christian Ethics”
Daniel Cowdin

Behemoth and Batrachians in the Eye of God: Responsibility to Other Kinds in Biblical Perspective”
Calvin B. DeWitt

Words beneath the Water: Logos, Cosmos, and the Spirit of Place”
Douglas Burton-Christie

A Christian Chinese Version of Ecotheology: Goodness, Beauty, and Holiness in Creation”
Peter K. H. Lee

Response to Peter K. H. Lee”
Heup Young Kim

Deep Ecumenicity versus Incommensurability: Finding Common Ground on a Common Earth”
Paul F. Knitter

 
Chapter 4

Toward Global Security and Sustainability
“Scientific and Religious Perspectives on Sustainability”
Ian G. Barbour

Population-Consumption-Ecology: The Triple Problematic”
Daniel C. Maguire

Response to Daniel Maguire: The Church Should Call Not Just Prophets but Environmental Deacons”
Susan Power Bratton

Incentives, Consumption Patterns, and Population Policies: A Christian Ethical Perspective”
James Martin-Schramm

Climate Change: Ethics, Justice, and Sustainable Community”
David G. Hallman

Ecological Security and Policies of Restraint”
William C. French

Response to William C. French”
Preston N. Williams

Christianity, Economics, and Ecology”
John B. Cobb, Jr.

 
Chapter 5

Christian Praxis for Ecology and Justice
“Global Ecojustice: The Church’s Mission in Urban Society”
Larry Rasmussen

Earthkeeping Churches at the African Grassroots”
Marthinus L. Daneel

Response to Marthinus L. Daneel”
Martin Robra

Social Transformation through Environmental Justice”
Vernice Miller-Travis

Partnership for the Environment among U. S. Christians: Reports from the National Religious Partnership for the Environment”
William Somplatsky-Jarman, Walter E. Grazer, and Stan L. LeQuire

The Integrity of Creation: Challenges and Opportunities for Praxis”
Patricia M. Mische

 

Conclusion

Notes on Contributors

Ecojustice at the Center of the Church’s Mission
Rosemary Radford Ruether
 

Select Bibliography

Index

Peter W. Bakken