| Description |
1 online resource (2 unnumbered pages, xxii pages, 223 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Foreword: Listening to water walkers / Denise M. Nadeau -- Introduction: A critical, contextual, and constructive approach to ecological theology and practice / Ched Myers -- The great commission: watershed conquest or watershed discipleship? / Katrina Friesen -- Watershed discipleship in Babylon: resisting the urban grid / David Pritchett -- The transfigured Earth: bioregionalism and the Kingdom of God / Jonathan McRay -- God's gonna trouble the water: a call to discipleship in the Detroit watershed / Lydia Wylie-Kellermann -- Caring for our waters: shifting the engineering paradigm / Erinn Fahey -- An ecological beloved community: an interview with Na'Taki Osborne Jelks of the West Atlanta Watershed Alliance / Sarah Thompson -- A pipeline runs through Naboth's vineyard: from abstraction to action in Cascadia / Matthew Humphrey -- Growing from the edges: conversations on land and labor, faith and food / Sarah Nolan and Erynn Smith and Reyna Ortega -- Plastics as a spiritual crisis / Sasha Adkins -- Bioregionalism and the Catholic worker movement / Victoria Machado -- The Carnival de Resistance: dreams, dance, drums, and disturbance / Tevyn East and Jay Beck -- Afterword: Toward watershed ecclesiology: theological, hermeneutic, and practical reflections / Ched Myers |
| Summary |
This collection introduces and explores "watershed discipleship" as a critical, contextual, and constructive approach to ecological theology and practice, and features emerging voices from a generation that has grown up under the shadow of climate catastrophe. Watershed Discipleship is a "triple entendre" that recognizes we are in a watershed historical moment of crisis, focuses on our intrinsically bioregional locus as followers of Jesus, and urges us to become disciples of our watersheds. Bibliographic framing essays by Myers trace his journey into a bioregionalist Christian faith and practice and offer reflections on incarnational theology, hermeneutics, and ecclesiology. The essays feature more than a dozen activists, educators, and practitioners under the age of forty, whose work and witness attest to a growing movement of resistance and reimagination across North America. This anthology overviews the bioregional paradigm and its theological and political significance for local sustainability, restorative justice, and spiritual renewal. Contributors reread both biblical texts and churchly practices (such as mission, baptism, and liturgy) through the lens of "re-place-ment." Herein is a comprehensive and engaged call for a "Transition church" that can help turn our history around toward environmental resiliency and social justice, by passionate advocates on the front lines of watershed discipleship |
| Notes |
Includes index (pages 219-223) |
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"CONTRIBUTORS: Introduction and Afterword by Ched Myers; Poetry by Rose Berger, Foreword by Denis Nadeau. Chapters by: Sasha Adkins, Jay Beck, Tevyn East, Erinn Fahey, Katerina Friesen, Matt Humphrey, Vickie Machado, Jonathan McRay, Sarah Nolan, Reyna Ortega, Dave Pritchett, Erynn Smith, Sarah Thompson, Lydia Wylie-Kellermann."--Publisher's Web site |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Ecotheology.
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Ecology -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Bioregionalism.
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RELIGION -- Christian Life -- Social Issues.
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
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Bioregionalism
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Ecology -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
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Ecotheology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Myers, Ched, editor
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Nadeau, Denise M., writer of foreward
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| ISBN |
9781498280778 |
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1498280773 |
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