Climate Church, Climate World: How People of Faith Must Work for Change
Climate Church, Climate World argues that climate change is the greatest moral challenge humanity has ever faced as it magnifies all forms of global social injustice. Jim Antal argues that it's time for the church to meet this moral challenge and suggests ways people of faith can reorient what...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Blue Ridge Summit
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
2018
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| In: | Year: 2018 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Antal, Jim, 1950-, Climate church, climate world] (2019) (Mann, Thomas W., 1944 -)
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Climatic changes
B Electronic books B Human ecology-Religious aspects-Christianity |
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| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: 9781538110683 |
| Summary: | Climate Church, Climate World argues that climate change is the greatest moral challenge humanity has ever faced as it magnifies all forms of global social injustice. Jim Antal argues that it's time for the church to meet this moral challenge and suggests ways people of faith can reorient what they prize through new approaches to worship, preaching, and other spiritual practices that honor creation and cultivate hope. Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Earth Is the Lord's, Not Ours to Wreck: Imperatives for a New Moral Era -- Questions for Group Discussion and Further Reflection -- 1 The Situation In Which We Find Ourselves -- What Have We Done? -- Taking Responsibility-The Anthropocene -- How Long Have We Known? -- Are We Paying Attention? -- What's at Stake? How Urgent Is the Crisis? -- Are We Choosing Extinction? -- We're All In This Together -- We Already Have Everything We Need -- Forward Momentum -- Questions for Group Discussion and Further Reflection -- 2 A Loving God for a Broken World -- Finding God in a Broken World -- Should We Try to Keep Our Hearts from Breaking? -- Gratitude for a God of Love -- How Do We Remain Faithful? -- Julian Bond's Testimony in Handcuffs -- The Mine and the Snow Geese-A Story for Our Time -- The Story of the Mine and the Snow Geese: A Postscript -- Questions for Group Discussion and Further Reflection -- Interlude -- A Letter from a Pastor to Her Congregation on the Occasion of the Closing of the Church on Ash Wednesday 2070 -- Questions for Group Discussion and Further Reflection -- 3 The Church's Vocation Today -- What's Church For? -- History's Lessons for an Unprecedented Time -- With God, There Are No Externalities -- God Calls Communities, Not Just Individuals . . . We All Live at the Same Address -- Our Covenant With God: For All Time-With All Creatures -- Golden Rule 2.0 -- Our Children's Trust -- Confronting the End of Continuity -- A Kairos Moment-Time for a Moral Intervention -- Questions for Group Discussion and Further Reflection -- 4 The Marks of the Church in a Climate Crisis World -- Our Role as Keepers of Continuity -- Building Resilient Communities -- It's Not Just About Me: From Personal to Communal Salvation -- Step 1: Confess Complicity. |
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| ISBN: | 1538110709 |