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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821693103321

Autore

Balabanski Vicky

Titolo

Earth Story in the New Testament, 5

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Continuum International Publishing, 2002

ISBN

1-283-19533-X

9786613195333

0-567-23301-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (246 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HabelNorman C

Disciplina

225.855

261.83628

Soggetti

Bible. N.T. -- Criticism, interpretation, etc

Earth -- Religious aspects -- Christianity

Human ecology in the Bible

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; Foreword; Editorial Preface; Preface; Abbreviations; List of Contributors; Six Ecojustice Principles; Ecojustice Hermeneutics: Reflections and Challenges; Matthew 6.25-34: Human Anxiety and the Natural World; Good News - for the Earth? Reflections on Mark 1.1-15; When Is the End Not the End? The Fate of Earth in Biblical Eschatology (Mark 13); Swords into Ploughshares: The End Of War? (Q/Luke 9.62); An Ecojustice Challenge: Is Earth Valued in John 1?; Which Intertext? A Response to An Ecojustice Challenge: Is Earth Valued in John 1?

John 1 - the Earth Bible Challenge: An Intra-textual Approach to Reading John 1Storing Up Death, Storing Up Life: An Earth Story in Luke 12.13-34; Reconnecting with the Waters: John 9.1-11; A Footstool or a Throne? Luke's Attitude to Earth (ge) in Acts 7; The Cosmic Christ and Ecojustice in the New Cosmos (Ephesians 1); Earth as Host or Stranger?: Reading Hebrews 11 from Diasporan Experience; There's a New World Coming! Reading the Apocalypse in the Shadow of the Canadian Rockies; Alas for Earth! Lament and Resistance in Revelation 12; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Authors

Sommario/riassunto

The Earth Bible is an international project, including volumes on ecojustice readings of major sections of the Bible. The basic aims of the



Earth Bible project are: to develop ecojustice principles appropriate to an Earth hermeneutic for interpreting the Bible and for promoting justice and healing for Earth; to publish these interpretations as contributions to the current debate on ecology, ecoethics and ecotheology; to provide a responsible forum within which the suppressed voice of Earth may be heard and impulses for healing Earth may be generated. The project explores text and tradition fro