Ecologies of Grace: Environmental Ethics and Christian Theology

by Willis Jenkins

Overview

Christianity struggles to show how living on Earth matters for living with God. While people of faith increasingly seek practical ways to respond to the environmental crisis, theology has had difficulty contextualizing the crisis and interpreting the responses. In Ecologies of Grace, Willis Jenkins presents a field-shaping introduction to Christian environmental ethics that offers resources for renewing theology. Observing how religious environmental practices often draw on concepts of grace, Jenkins maps the way Christian environmental strategies draw from traditions of salvation as they engage the problems of environmental ethics.

By being particularly sensitive to the ways in which environmental problems are made intelligible to Christian moral experience, Jenkins guides his readers toward a fuller understanding of Christianity and ecology. He not only makes sense of the variety of Christian environmental ethics, but by showing how environmental issues come to the heart of Christian experience, prepares fertile ground for theological renewal.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199989881
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	02/12/2013
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	376
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Willis Jenkins is Margaret A. Farley Associate Professor of Social Ethics at Yale Divinity School.

Table of Contents

1. Saving Nature, Saving Grace
Part I: Ethical Strategies
2. Three Practical Strategies in Environmental Ethics
3. The Strategy of Ecojustice
4. The Strategy of Christian Stewardship
5. The Strategy of Ecological Spirituality
Part II: Theological Investigations
6. Sanctifying Biodiversity: Ecojustice in Thomas Aquinas
7. Environmental Virtues: Charity, Nature, and Divine Friendship in Thomas
8. Stewardship after the End of Nature: Karl Barth's Environment of Jesus Christ
9. Nature Redeemed: Barth's Garden of Reconciliation
10. After Maximus: Ecological Spirituality and Cosmic Deification
11. Thinking like a Transfigured Mountain: Sergei Bulgakov's Wisdom Ecology
12. Conclusion: Renovating Grace
Notes
Works Cited
Index