Description
Book SynopsisEcology challenges theology to reimagine who we are, who the Spirit of God is, who Christ is, where creation is going, and what is the role of liturgy in society-- all in the glare of the ecological crisis. This book also mines the theology within and behind the ground-breaking encyclical Laudato Si’: On Care for our Common Home.
In listening to ecology, Lane seeks to open a conversation between religion and science in the context of climate change, to develop a theology of the natural world, and to recover the lost link between creation and liturgy. A new theology of the Spirit permeates most chapters as the key to addressing the current ecological crisis as well as engaging with the increasing number of people who describe themselves as “spiritual but not religious”.
Until fairly recently, climate change was left to the scientists, politicians, and activists. More is needed. Now is the time to hear voice of religion in that debate in the public forum with a view to initiating new, transformative practices in society, in politics, and in religions.
This new book will be of interest to activists, politicians, priests, christian educators, and theologians. The book is born out of the conviction that climate change is not just one more problem to be addressed by politicians; rather it is the challenge facing humanity in the 21st century and as such is the challenge underlying all other challenges at this moment in history.
Table of Contents
- THEOLOGY AND ECOLOGY
- Introduction to Laudato Si’
- Integral Ecology
- Ecology and the Renewal of Theology
- Dialogue between Theology and Science
- THEOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND INTEGRAL ECOLOGY
- Critique of Anthropocentrism
- Reconstruction of Anthropology in the Service of Ecology
- Expanding the Dynamic of Interpersonal Relations
- INTEGRAL ECOLOGY AND DEEP PNEUMATOLOGY
- The Neglect of Pneumatology
- Universal Experiences of the Spirit
- Specific Experiences of the Spirit
- The Spirit in the Hebrew Bible
- Teilhard on the Unity of Spirit and Matter
- DEEP ECOLOGY AND DEEP CHRISTOLOGY
- The Presence of Wisdom, Word and Spirit in the Hebrew Bible
- A Plurality of Christologies in the New Testament
- From Deep Ecology to Deep Incarnation
- Initial Evaluation of Gregersen’s Deep Incarnation
- The Underlying Unity of Creation and Incarnation
- ESCHATOLOGY AND ECOLOGY
- Theological Guidelines
- From Creation to the New Creation in Christ
- From the Unified Biblical Vision to Laudato Si’ via Vatican II
- The Pivotal Role of Resurrection in Eschatology
- CREATION AND LITURGY
- The Lost Link between Creation and Liturgy
- The Community of Creation model
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LAUDATO SI’ AND THE COSMIC EUCHARIST
- A Theology of the Natural World as essential background to the Cosmic Eucharist
- Different Dimensions to the Cosmic Eucharist
