Theology on a Defiant Earth - Seeking Hope in the Anthropocene

In this book, theologians and scholars of religion grapple with the political, philosophical, and ethical implications of a climate crisis provoked by one species, our own, serving its needs at the increasingly intolerable cost of all life on the planet.

List of contents

Preface
Introduction: Theology on a Defiant Earth, by Peter Walker and Jonathan Cole

The Anthropocene Epoch and Its Meaning, by Clive Hamilton

A Rupture in the Earth: An Implicit Augustinian Theology of the Anthropocene, by Lisa H. Sideris

Is It Time for a Theological Step Change, by Clive Pearson

Icarus Falling: Theological Anthropology and the Anthropocene, by Scott Cowdell

Thy Kingdom Come: Bonhoeffer's Earthly Christianity as Theology and Ethic, by Dianne Rayson

Anthropocene and Ecclesia: The Church in Swarming Mode, by Stephen Pickard

Thinking Eschatologically in the Face of the Anthropocene, by Christiaan Mostert

Apocalypse and the Anthropocene: A Biblical Resource for a New Global Epoch, by David Neville

Redeeming Eden: Biblical Ethics in the Anthropocene, by Mark G. Brett

The Serpent in the Garden-Sin and the Anthropocene, by Peter Walker

Defiant God: The Fate of Christianity's Holocene Ontology in the Anthropocene, by Jonathan Cole

A Climate of Hope? Reflections on the Theology of the Anthropocene, by Clive Hamilton

Bibliography
Index
About the Contributors

About the author

Jonathan Cole is assistant director of the Centre for Religion, Ethics and Society at Charles Sturt University, Canberra.
Peter Walker is research fellow in the Centre for Religion, Ethics and Society at Charles Sturt University, Canberra and Principal of United Theological College, Sydney.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Walker Cole
• Assisted by: Jonathan Cole (Editor), Cole Jonathan (Editor), Peter Walker (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2022
• EAN: 9781666903225
• ISBN: 978-1-66690-322-5
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Religious Ethics and Environmental Challenges
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, RELIGION / Ethics, RELIGION / Theology, Theology, Conservation of the environment, Religious ethics