Down to Earth by Floyd, Richard

Down to Earth (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781498220897)

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Format: Hardcover
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Down to Earth by Floyd, Richard

Down to Earth

$39.00
Down to Earth by Floyd, Richard

Down to Earth

$39.00
Format: Hardcover
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In the face of climate change and ecological diminishment, how can we hope that creation itself--good and beautiful, marked by tragedy and chaos--is taken up rather than left behind? Can a Christian vision, which has at times been drunk on eschatological dreams (or nightmares) that consign this world and most of its creatures to destruction, foster an earthly hope? Jurgen Moltmann and Sallie McFague offer two contemporary possibilities for an ecological eschatology. Floyd critiques both of these theological visions and traces an alternative that is both humble (grounded in the humus, the dirt) and hopeful (grounded in divine creativity), arguing that a ""down-to-earth"" hope is grounded finally in beauty: the beauty of the other that draws out the self, the beauty of the redeemed self coming out to meet the other, and the beauty of God that lures forth ever-new possibilities and gathers up all the beautiful and broken creatures into the deepest possible harmony.

Author: Richard Floyd
ISBN-10: 1498220894
ISBN-13: 9781498220897
Publisher: Cascade Books
Language: English
Published: 08/18/2015
Pages: 140
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d
By Richard Floyd
By Richard Floyd
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Richard A. Floyd has taught at Columbia Theological Seminary in Atlanta, Georgia, and published several essays in the Feasting on the Word and Feasting on the Gospels series. He is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA) with fourteen years of experience as a parish minister. His PhD in theological studies is from Emory University.

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