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This volume brings together a collection of work from Africa to consider how New Testament ethics can speak to the philosophical reflections on African environmental issues. In conceptualising the ethics of the New Testament, it outlines the theological bases which the great legacies of Jesus and Paul derived their ethics from. Exploring a broad range of moral concerns, this work identifies unity that underlies ethical teachings. Critiquing secular ethical perspectives such as deontological ethics and utilitarianism, and its insufficiency to address African environmental problems, the work offers a New Testament ethic, which tries to transcend the limitations of secular theories and help Africa from said environmental problems.
List of contents
Chapter 1. Introduction: Ethics and African Environmental Issues.- Chapter 2. The fig tree (Luke 13:6 9; Mark 11:12 20) and food security: An assessment of fruit fields in the aftermath of jambanja in Zimbabwe.- Chapter 3. Biblical Texts and Anthropocentric View of the Environment: A Conundrum to Environmental Ethicists.- Chapter 4. Moral Philosophy, New Testament Ethics and Ozone Layer Depletion: Critical Reflections.- Chapter 5. A Theological reflection of Cyclone Idai and its implication to the Government of Zimbabwe s Disaster Preparedness. A contextual reading of Matthew 7:24-25.- Chapter 6. A deontological reflection of Romans 8:18-24 in the context of clean water supply challenges in Zimbabwe.- Chapter 7. Perspectives on Jesus Christ And The Trees: An Eco-Theological Template for African Church s Ethical Initiative Against Deforestation.- Chapter 8. Echoes of Paul: Principles from Contextual Discipleship for Africa s Sustainability Teachers.- Chapter 9. The Role of the Catholic Church in mitigating the effects of Climate Change in Zimbabwe.- Chapter 10 The Church s Views on the Centralised Approach to Food Security in Zimbabwe.- Chapter 11.Romans 8: 18 I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. A moral philosophical reflection towards Pauline s philosophy on the ecosystem.- Chapter 12. Cyclone Idai in Manicaland, Zimbabwe-A Posteori in Disaster Management (Matthew 24:37-39): A New Testament Ethical Analysis.- Chapter 13.Humanity and Nature Assessed and Reconciled through the Moral Philosophy of Hunhu and the New Testament.- Chapter 14. Jesus Ethics as a Panacea to Climate Change and Eco-crisis in Zimbabwe.- Chapter 15. The Groaning of creation Rom.8:18 and a renewal of Christian attitudes to climate change.
