Creation: A Biblical Vision for the Environment

Margaret Barker contributes a characteristically Christian voice to contemporary theological debates on the environment. Most of the issues we face today were not those that faced the early Christian community and so there are often no directly relevant biblical teachings. Barker's starting poi...

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Main Author: Barker, Margaret (Author)
Contributors: Bartholomaios, I., Konstantinopel, Patriarch 1940- (Contributor)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: London Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 2009
In:Year: 2009
Reviews:Book Review: Margaret Barker, Creation: The Biblical Vision for the Environment (London; New York: T & T Clark International, 2010). 326 pp. £16.99 (pb), ISBN 978-0-567-01547-1 (2011) (Davis, Ellen F., 1950 -)
Creation: A Biblical Vision for the Environment. By Margaret Barker (2011) (Northcott, Michael S., 1955 -)
[Rezension von: BARKER, MARGARET, Creation: A Biblical Vision for the Environment] (2011) (Laffey, Alice L., 1944 -)
Edition:1st ed.
Further subjects:B Creation
B Electronic books
B Environmental protection ; Religious aspects ; Christianity
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Parallel Edition:Erscheint auch als: 9780567015471
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Summary:Margaret Barker contributes a characteristically Christian voice to contemporary theological debates on the environment. Most of the issues we face today were not those that faced the early Christian community and so there are often no directly relevant biblical teachings. Barker's starting point is the question of what Jesus himself would have believed about the Creation? What could the early Church have believed about the Creation? She then shows how much of this belief is embedded, often unrecognised, in the New Testament and early Christian texts. It was what people assumed as the norm, the worldview within which they lived and expressed their faith. Barker establishes the general principles of a Christian view of Creation. Some of what she says will show how current teaching would have been unfamiliar to the first Christians, not just in application but in basic principles.
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 VISION OF CREATION -- Chapter 2 BEGINNING CREATION -- Chapter 3 WEAVING CREATION -- Chapter 4 RESTORING CREATION -- Chapter 5 HIGH PRIEST OF CREATION -- Chapter 6 EMBRACING CREATION -- Bibliography -- Index of Biblical and Ancient Texts -- Index of Persons, Places and Subjects -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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ISBN:0567303705