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1 online resource (282 pages); illustrations, music |
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illustration |
| Series |
Studies in Peace and Scripture: Institute of Mennonite Studies |
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Studies in Peace and Scripture: Institute of Mennonite Studies
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| Contents |
Series Preface -- Contributors -- Foreword / Luke Gascho -- Introduction / Ryan D. Harker and Janeen Bertsche Johnson -- Part One: Biblical Reflections -- 1. Land as Kin: Renewing our imagination / Ellen F. Davis -- 2. Who Gets to Eat in the Garden of Eden? / Wilma Ann Bailey -- 3. Rooted and Grounded : Yet Holding the Land Loosely in Trust / S. Roy Kaufman -- 4. Land and Community in the Book of Ruth / Elaine T. James -- 5. Speaking from Ground Level : Vineyards, Fields, and Trees among Israel's Prophets / Patricia K. Tull -- 6. Enduring Hope, Patient Toil : Psalm 37 and YHWH's Agrarian Vision / Ryan D. Harker -- 7. Healing, Kairos, and Land in the New Testament : Eschatology and the End of Empire / Barbara Roosing -- 8. The Apocalypse of John and Theological Ecosystems of Destruction and Escape / Loren L. Johns -- Interlude One: Excerpts from Isaiah 34 (NRSV) and a Contemporary Interpretation / Hannah E. Johnson -- Part Two : Theological Reflections -- 9. A More Excellent Way : The Promise of Integrating Theological Education and Agrarianism / Nathan T. Stucky -- 10. Lived Theology in the Little Campbell Watershed : A Primer on Biorgional Discipleship / Matthew Humphrey -- 11. The Theological Place of Land : Watershed Discipleship as Re-placed Cultural Vision / Laura Schmidt Roberts -- 12. A Curse More Ancient? / J. Matthew Bonzo -- 13. Eschatology Shapes Ethics : New Creation and Christian Ecological Virtue Ethics / Steve Bouma-Prediger -- 14. Holy Ground : Considering a Sacramental Ecclesiology in Berry's Port William / Winn Collier -- 15. Cultivating Right Desire : Wendell Berry's Economic Vision / Richard J. Klinedinst -- Interlude Two: Creation Care Hymns / Adam M. L. Tice -- Part Three: Historical Reflections -- 16. On Hollowed Ground? : The Ambivalent Territoriality of Saint Justin's Interpretation of the Kingdom of God and Its Implications for Contemporary Christian Theological Reflection / Nicholas R. Brown -- 17. Extracting Faith, Cultivating Faith : Andean Lessons on Decolonizing Christian Environmentalism / Ryan M. Juskus -- 18. "But It Is Nothing Except Woods" : Anabaptists, Ambitions, and a Northern Indiana Settlerscape, 1830-1841 / D. Ezra Miller -- 19. Humanity from the Humus : Early American Mennonite Humility Theology as a Resource for a Grounded Theological Anthropology / Douglas D. H. Kaufman -- 20. They Were Right : Agrarian Voices of Mennonite Civilian Public Service Men / Rebecca Horner Shenton -- Interlude Three: Sustainable Agriculture as Conscientious Objection: Perspectives from Japan / Raymond Epp |
| Summary |
"For many of us, the connection between the ecological crisis and humanity's detachment from the land is becoming increasingly clear. In biblical terms, adam (humanity) has severed itself from the adamah (soil), and we (creation) are reaping the consequences. This collection of essays, and the conference from which it took shape, calls the church to root itself more deeply in the agrarian biblical text and ecclesial tradition in order to remember and freshly imagine ways of living on and with the land that are restorative, reconciling, and faithful to the triune God's invitation to new life in Christ. When we listen attentively to and patiently learn from the biblical text, church history, and theology, the land itself can become a conversation partner, and we are summoned to recognize that the gospel is reserved not simply for humanity, but for the whole of creation." -- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
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Bible. Old Testament fast |
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Land use -- Biblical teaching
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Human ecology -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Human ecology -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
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Land use -- Biblical teaching
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Harker, Ryan Dallas. editor
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Johnson, Janeen Bertsche. editor
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Gascho, Luke, 1952- author of Foreword.
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| ISBN |
9781498235549 |
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1498235549 |
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