| Description |
1 online resource (246 pages) |
| Contents |
Foreword; Editorial Preface; Preface; Abbreviations; List of Contributors; Six Ecojustice Principles; Ecojustice Hermeneutics: Reflections and Challenges; Matthew 6.25-34: Human Anxiety and the Natural World; Good News -- for the Earth? Reflections on Mark 1.1-15; When Is the End Not the End? The Fate of Earth in Biblical Eschatology (Mark 13); Swords into Ploughshares: The End Of War? (Q/Luke 9.62); An Ecojustice Challenge: Is Earth Valued in John 1?; Which Intertext? A Response to An Ecojustice Challenge: Is Earth Valued in John 1? |
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John 1 -- the Earth Bible Challenge: An Intra-textual Approach to Reading John 1Storing Up Death, Storing Up Life: An Earth Story in Luke 12.13-34; Reconnecting with the Waters: John 9.1-11; A Footstool or a Throne? Luke's Attitude to Earth (ge) in Acts 7; The Cosmic Christ and Ecojustice in the New Cosmos (Ephesians 1); Earth as Host or Stranger?: Reading Hebrews 11 from Diasporan Experience; There's a New World Coming! Reading the Apocalypse in the Shadow of the Canadian Rockies; Alas for Earth! Lament and Resistance in Revelation 12; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Authors |
| Summary |
The Earth Bible is an international project, including volumes on ecojustice readings of major sections of the Bible. The basic aims of the Earth Bible project are: to develop ecojustice principles appropriate to an Earth hermeneutic for interpreting the Bible and for promoting justice and healing for Earth; to publish these interpretations as contributions to the current debate on ecology, ecoethics and ecotheology; to provide a responsible forum within which the suppressed voice of Earth may be heard and impulses for healing Earth may be generated. The project explores text and tradition fro |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Habel, Norman C
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| ISBN |
9780567233011 |
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0567233014 |
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9786613195333 |
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6613195332 |
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