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This book promotes Christian ecology and animal ethics from the perspectives of the Bible, science, and the Judeo-Christian tradition. In an age of climate change, how do we protect species and individual animals? Does it matter how we treat bugs? How does understanding the Trinity and Christ's self-emptying nature help us to be more responsible earth caretakers? What do Christian ethics have to do with hunting? How do the Foxfire books of Southern Appalachia help us to love a place? Does ecology need a place at the pulpit and in hymns? How do Catholic approaches, past and present, help us appreciate and respond to the created world? Finally, how does Jesus respond to humans, nonhumans, and environmental concerns in the Gospel of Mark?

Table of Contents

Foreword
David Clough

Introduction to Ecotheology and Nonhuman Ethics: A Community of Compassion
Melissa J. Brotton

Part 1: Ecotheology and Nonhuman Ethics
Chapter 1: Animal Rights Revisited
Celia Deane-Drummond
Chapter 2: Whatsoever you do to the least of my brothers: Why it is wrong to harm a fly
Jeffrey A. Lockwood
Chapter 3: Anthropogenic Climate Change and Animal Welfare
Bryan Ness
Chapter 4: The Self-emptying Godhead: Perichoresis, Kenosis, and an Ethic for the Anthropocene
Mick Pope
Part 2: Ecotheology in the South
Chapter 5: Loving the Mountains: Cultivating Compassion for Places
Andrew R. H. Thompson
Chapter 6: An Ecotheology of Hunting
Perry Hodgkins Jones

Part 3: Liturgical Practices and Hymnody
Chapter 7: Singing to Subdue or to Sustain? Looking for an Ethic of Conservation in Christian Liturgical Song and Hymnody
David Kendall
Chapter 8Environmental Advocacy and the Absence of the Church
The Rev. Jerry Cappel
Part 4: Catholic Perspectives
Chapter 9:The Ethics of Virtuous Design
Robert (Robin) Gottfried
Chapter 10:Care and Compassion: The Need for an Integral Ecology
Cristina Vanin
Part 5: Jesus and the Animals in the Gospel of Mark
Chapter 11:Liberating Legion: An Ecocritical, Postcolonial reading of Mark 5:1–20
Kendra Haloviak Valentine
Chapter 12:The End of the Road: Jesus, Donkeys, and Galilean Subsistence Farmers
Matthew Valdez

Product details

Published 30 Nov 2016
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 260
ISBN 9781498527910
Imprint Lexington Books
Illustrations 1 Chart
Series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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