Theology and ecology across the disciplines: on care for our common home

"The threat of ecological collapse is a possibility that is increasingly becoming a reality for the world's populations, both human and nonhuman. Addressing this global challenge will require enormous cultural creativity and demand a diversity of perspectives, especially those that deal with religion and the human sciences. Toward this end, this volume draws from a variety of academic disciplines and positions to explore the role and nature of environmental responsibility, especially where these intersect with religious or theological viewpoints. The disciplines, including history, philosophy, literature, politics, peace studies, economics, women's studies, and the ecological sciences, to name a few, have begun to develop distinct perspectives on the urgent ecological issues of our day, as well as pointing toward specific practices at the local and global level. This volume provides a multidisciplinary point of departure for conversations on environmental responsibility that resist simplistic solutions but rather highlight the complex nature of the ecological issues and provide conversations about potential ways forward in what appears to be an intractable global problem of huge complexity."--

Ecotheology before ecology and environmentalism : reclaiming the missing heritage of natural theology / Christopher Hamlin -- Thoreau's woodchopper, Wordsworth's leech-Gatherer, and the representation of "humble and rustic life" / Alda Balthrop-Lewis -- How ecology can save the life of theology : a philosophical contribution to the engagement of ecology and theology / David Kirchhoffer -- Key issues in ecological theology : incarnation, evolution, communion / Denis Edwards -- Creation and creativity / Mark Hayes -- "No compromise in defense of Mother Earth" : the religion and politics of radical environmentalism / Kyle William Beam -- Strategic peacebuilding and an "integral ecology" / Michael Yankoski -- Against the "unity" of Babel : liberation theology and the language of sustainable development / Daniel Castillo -- The environment, the common good, and women's participation / Lisa Sowle Cahill -- The planetary boundaries framework and food production : a radical redefinition of sustainable development? / Johan De Tavernier -- Restoration and transformation : a theological engagement with ecological restoration / Rebecca Artinian-Kaiser -- Laudato si' and Standing Rock : water justice and indigenous ecological knowledge / Christiana Zenner -- Eating our way into the care of our common home / Norman Wirzba -- Law for and from the natural world / Mary Ellen O'Connell with Marie-Claire Klassen -- In defense of biodiversity : biodiversity in ecology and theology / Carmody Grey -- Evolution : a theology of niche construction for the twenty-first century / Celia Deane-Drummond.