Religion and Ecology in the Public SphereThe Greenie's Guide to the End of the World: Ecology and Eschatology
Owing in part to a growing public awareness of climate change, questions of ecology have increasingly come to be an issue for Christian theologians. The two books reviewed here represent two different aspects of that Christian theological engagement. For the sake of simplicity, I will use an all-too...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2013
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2013, Volume: 55, Issue: 1, Pages: 146-149 |
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| Summary: | Owing in part to a growing public awareness of climate change, questions of ecology have increasingly come to be an issue for Christian theologians. The two books reviewed here represent two different aspects of that Christian theological engagement. For the sake of simplicity, I will use an all-too-crude typology to separate them: Theodore David McCall's The Greenie's Guide to the End of the World: Ecology and Eschatology stands on the side of theory (in what ways does Christian systematic theology address issues brought to the forefront by ecology?), whereas the volume of essays edited by Celia Deane-Drummond and Heinrich Bedford-Strohm stands on the side of practice (in what ways can Christian public theology help engender public policy responses to problems deemed ecological?). |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/css127 |