Insurgency of the Spirit - Jesus s Liberation Animist Spirituality, Empire, and Creating

This book is an animist Christian liberation theology and a call to insurrection against the fossil fuel empires that have created the climate catastrophe. As such, it retrieves the animist Jesus to inspire resistance to anti-ecological, contemporary settler colonization of the Earth.

List of contents

Introduction: Towards Animist Spiritual Ecology
Chapter 1 Toward a Retrieval of the Earth-loving Jesus
Chapter 2: Contemporary Shamans and Animist Spiritualities
Chapter 3 Jesus' Vision Quest
Chapter 4 God's Kin-dom as Ecological
Chapter 5 God's Wilderness Seeds Animist Revolution
Chapter 6 Radical Inclusiveness and Abundant Giving
Chapter 7 God's Dream of Restoration
Chapter 8 Jesus' Biomimicry of Creation Wisdom
Chapter 9 Wild Grace Challenges Imperial Dystopia
Chapter 10 Standing Rock, Scarcity and Earth Economy, and the Rights of Nature
Chapter 11 Dangerous Memories, Crucifixion, and Trauma'
Chapter 12 The Empty Table: Eco-Heartbreak ad Resistance
Epilogue: Creating Earth Protectors
Bibliography
About the Author

About the author

Robert E. Shore-Goss is a retired UCC clergy/theologian. He serves on the denominational Environmental Justice Council of the United Church of Christ.

Product details

• Authors: Robert E. Shore-Goss, Shore-Goss Robert E.
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2022
• EAN: 9781793623201
• ISBN: 978-1-79362-320-1
• No. of pages: 338
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; comparative religion, RELIGION / Comparative Religion, Christian leaders & leadership, Religious and spiritual figures, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts, RELIGION / Christian Living / Leadership & Mentoring, New Testaments, Biblical Studies & Exegesis