Ecotheology and the Practice of Hope

by Dalton, Anne Marie; Simmons, Henry C.

• ISBN13: 9781438432960
• ISBN10: 1438432968
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-07-02
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

Looks at how ecotheology has created a new vision of the natural world And The place of humans within it.

Author Biography

Anne Marie Dalton is Professor of Religious Studies at Saint Mary's University in Halifax. She is the author of A Theology for the Earth: The Contributions of Thomas Berry and Bernard Lonergan. Henry C. Simmons is Professor Emeritus of Christian Education at the Union Presbyterian Seminary. He is coauthor (with James C. Fisher) of A Journey Called Aging: Challenges and Opportunities in Older Adulthood and (with Jane Wilson) Soulful Aging: Ministry through the Stages Adulthood.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. vii
The Social Imaginary and the Ecological Crisis	p. 1
The Emergence of Ecotheology	p. 19
Imagined Futures	p. 39
Theology and the Ecological Crisis	p. 53
Science and Ecology	p. 71
Global and Local in the Social Imaginary	p. 89
Living As If	p. 105
Conclusion	p. 125
Notes	p. 127
bibliography	p. 155
Index	p. 181
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