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Redeeming the time a political theology of the environment

This is an examination of environmental theology from 4 major viewpoints. Scharper explores the viewpoints of process theology; the new cosmology of Thomas Berry; ecofeminism; and liberation theologians.

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  • "What is the proper role of humans in light of the ecological crisis? After a sympathetic and critical analysis of the principal answers to that question, Stephen Scharper argues that only a religious point of view - seeing human agency as central to both the devastation and the reclamation of planetary life - is viable. Such a view must include social, economic, cultural, as well as theological transformation in order to be effective in confronting threats to the."
  • "This is an examination of environmental theology from 4 major viewpoints. Scharper explores the viewpoints of process theology; the new cosmology of Thomas Berry; ecofeminism; and liberation theologians."
  • "This is an examination of environmental theology from 4 major viewpoints. Scharper explores the viewpoints of process theology; the new cosmology of Thomas Berry; ecofeminism; and liberation theologians."@en
  • "Various current paradigms and remedying, or redeeming, their inadequacies."
  • "A thoughtful and interesting contribution to environmental theology literature. --Choice Richly informative and provocative. --Review for Religious Stephen Bede Scharper has added a significant new book to the growing collection of Christian ecotheological offerings....an admirable job of summarizing the main strands of Christian environmental theologies and highlighting the most valuable contributions of each....heartfelt...There is much to celebrate in this book!...presents a comprehensible and accessible guide to the major varieties of what Scharper calls 'Christian ecological theology.'...In this book he succeeds not just in coherently summarizing a number of the most important voices in ecotheology, but also in giving us a blueprint for the changed consciousness necessary to motivate a conversion from our destructive earth-damaging behavior to a more earth-friendly way of living. --Worldviews."
  • "Ecosystem. Among the principal answers or "paradigms" assessed by this book are the new cosmology, ecofeminism, process thought, Gaia theory, and liberation theology. Each of these recognizes the role of the human in the present environmental crisis. But each of these also approaches the "human problematic" in incomplete or inadequate ways. Thus, Redeeming the Time is both an examination of the state of the question, and a constructive effort at building among the."

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  • "Redeeming the time : a political theology of the environment"
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