Ecologies of Grace: Environmental Ethics and Christian Theology (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780199989881)

Christianity struggles to show how living on Earth matters for living with God. While people of faith increasingly seek practical ways to respond to the environmental crisis, theology has had difficulty contextualizing the crisis and interpreting the responses. In Ecologies of Grace, Willis Jenkins presents a field-shaping introduction to Christian environmental ethics that offers resources for renewing theology. Observing how religious environmental practices often draw on concepts of grace, Jenkins maps the way Christian environmental strategies draw from traditions of salvation as they engage the problems of environmental ethics.

By being particularly sensitive to the ways in which environmental problems are made intelligible to Christian moral experience, Jenkins guides his readers toward a fuller understanding of Christianity and ecology. He not only makes sense of the variety of Christian environmental ethics, but by showing how environmental issues come to the heart of Christian experience, prepares fertile ground for theological renewal.

Author: Willis Jenkins
ISBN-10: 0199989885
ISBN-13: 9780199989881
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 02/12/2013
Pages: 376
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.00d