Christian Environmentalism and Human Responsibility in the 21st Centur - Questions of Stewardship and Accountability

This book comprises scholarly essays and creative works exploring the implications of Christian environmentalism through literary and cultural criticism. For scholars, researchers and upper-level students interested in the relationship between religion and environment, ethics, animal welfare, poetry, and post-secularism.

List of contents

1. Introduction: Christian Environmentalism and Human Responsibility 2. The Practice of Lavishing Attention 3. An Ecocritical Reading of Jesus of the Deep Forest 4. Waves and Refugees: Water Metaphors and Epistemological Humility in Thi Bui's The Best We Could Do 5. Poems John Terpstra (I) 6. 'Outrage from lifeless things': Theodicy and the Anthropogenic Effects of the Fall in Paradise Lost 7. Early Modern Reformed Theology and Nonhuman Animals 8. Bandits 9. Paragon of Animals: An Afterword to "Bandits" 10. From Grass to Galaxy: Alice Meynell's Poetic Wayfaring in the Meshwork of the World 11. Flannery O'Connor's Integral Ecology 12. "Can you make this all run again?" The Art and Environmentalism of Margo and Rein Vanderhill 13. Environments of Grace: Reflections on Sacramental Reality in the Work of Bruce Cockburn and David Adams Richards 14. Poems by John Terpstra (II) 15. Birding, Fiction, and Margaret Atwood's Cultivation of Ecological Awareness 16. "I just can't get enough of this place": The Gifts and Complications of John Terpstra's Love of Hamilton 17. Can We Hear What the Land Is Saying? The Haudenosaunee Two Row Wampum and Via Negativa as Postures for Listening 18. To Dwell Ecologically: The Practice of Re-enchantment

About the author

Katherine M. Quinsey is Professor Emerita in the English Department at the University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada.

Product details

• Authors: Katherine M. (University of Windsor Quinsey
• Assisted by: Katherine M. Quinsey (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.03.2025
• EAN: 9781032433134
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3243313-4
• No. of pages: 238
• Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Medicine, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, NATURE / Essays, NATURE / Ecology, RELIGION / Christian Church / History, Christianity, Social Work, Ethics & moral philosophy, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Conservation of the environment, Literary studies: general, Ethics and moral philosophy, Social impact of environmental issues, Religious ethics, Botany & plant sciences, RELIGION / Christian Living / General, Environmentalist thought and ideology, RELIGION / Christian Living / Social Issues, Botany and plant sciences, Medicine and Nursing