Biblical Prophets and Contemporary Environmental Ethics

Zusatztext Marlow offers a biologically rich and morally sensitive account of the themes of the earth ... The book is beautifully produced, clearly and engagingly written and richly researched and makes an important contribution to the ongoing reocvery of the Old Testament as a source of ecological wisdom rather than of odium. Informationen zum Autor Dr Hilary Marlow is a Research Associate in theology and science at the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, St Edmunds College, Cambridge. She also teaches biblical Hebrew to undergraduates in the Faculty of Divinity and sometimes lectures on the biblical prophets for the Cambridge Theological Federation. She completed her doctorate at the University of Cambridge in 2007. This is her first full-length monograph. She has a longstanding and close connection with the Christian environmental charity A Rocha, and is currently on the operations team of the John Ray Initiative. Klappentext In the context of growing concern over climate change, Hilary Marlow explores what an ecological reading of the biblical text can contribute to contemporary environmental ethics. Includes a survey of creation theology in church history and a detailed exegetical study of the texts of the biblical prophets Amos, Hosea and First Isaiah. Zusammenfassung In the context of growing concern over climate change, Hilary Marlow explores what an ecological reading of the biblical text can contribute to contemporary environmental ethics. Includes a survey of creation theology in church history and a detailed exegetical study of the texts of the biblical prophets Amos, Hosea and First Isaiah. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword by John Barton Introduction 1: Creation in Church History 2: Nature Versus History: An Artificial Divide 3: Ecological Hermeneutics: Meaning and Method 4: Who Can But Prophesy? Creation Dialogue in the Book of Amos 5: The People do not Know: Covenantal Failure in the Book of Hosea 6: The Vineyard of the Lord of Hosts: YHWH, the People and the Land in Isaiah 1-39 7: The Old Testament Prophets and Environmental Ethics: A Dialogue ...

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• Authors: John Barton, Hilary Marlow, Hilary (Research Associate in Theology and the Environment at the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion Marlow, Hilary/ Barton Marlow, Marlow Hilary
• Assisted by: John Barton (Foreword)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.01.2010
• EAN: 9780199569052
• ISBN: 978-0-19-956905-2
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Religious writings, prayers, songbooks, religious meditations; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Umweltschutz, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, Theologische Ethik, RELIGION / Ethics, Religion - Biblical Studies, RELIGION / Christianity / General, RELIGION / Biblical Studies / General, RELIGION / Biblical Studies / Prophets, Christianity, The environment, Science / Environmental Science, Religious ethics, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts, Biblical exegesis & hermeneutics