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Ecotheology in the Humanities explores the connections between biblical, literary, film, and music studies through the poetry of Wendell Berry and Sherman Alexie, the cosmologies of J. R. R. Tolkien and Boethius, and the literary works of C. S. Lewis, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Darren Aronofsky's film Noah.
List of contents
Foreword - John Cobb Jr.
Introduction - "Heaven and Nature Sing": Introduction - Melissa Brotton
Section I: Creation Care and the Sabbath
Chapter 1 - Friends of the Creator: A Theological Foundation for Earth-keeping Ethics - Ginger Harwood
Chapter 2 - A Biblical Land Ethic? A Response to Aldo Leopold - Ellen Bernstein
Chapter 3 - Sanctification as Impetus for Creation Care in Adventism - Young-Chun Kim
Section II: Sacramental Approaches
Chapter 4 - Ecotheology and Enchantment: How Wendell Berry Helps Re-vision the World - Doug Sikkema
Chapter 5 - Salmon Theology and Spokane Falls: Catholicism and Restorative Justice in Sherman Alexie's Poetry - Chad Wriglesworth
Section III: Classical and Medieval Cosmologies and Music
Chapter 6 - "All Nature Sings and Round Me Rings the Music of the Spheres": Christianity and the Transmission of a Cosmic Ecomusicology - David Kendall
Chapter 7 - Stewards of Arda: Creation and Sustenance in J.R.R. Tolkien's Legendarium - Samuel McBride
Section IV: Ecotheodicy and Ecojustice
Chapter 8 - With Heads Craning Forward: The Eschaton and the Nonhuman in Romans 8 - Mick Pope
Chapter 9 - Aronofsky's Noah: An Invitation for Ecotheology - Ron Jolliffe
Chapter 10 - "Not a Tame Lion": Animal Compassion and Ecotheology of Human Imagination in Four Anglican Thinkers - John Gatta
Chapter 11 - "Lost Angel in the Earth": Ecotheodicy in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "A Drama of Exile" - Melissa Brotton
Afterword - Robert R. Gottfried
About the author
Edited by Melissa Brotton - Foreword by John Cobb Jr. - Afterword by Robert R. Gottfried - Contributions by Ellen Bernstein; Ginger Hanks Harwood; John Gatta; Ron Jolliffe; David J. Kendall; Young-Chun Kim; Samuel McBride; Mick Pope; Doug Sikkema and Chad
Summary
Ecotheology in the Humanities explores the connections between biblical, literary, film, and music studies through the poetry of Wendell Berry and Sherman Alexie, the cosmologies of J. R. R. Tolkien and Boethius, and the literary works of C. S. Lewis, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Darren Aronofsky's film Noah.
