Theology and Ecology Across the Disciplines

Celia Deane-Drummond is Professor of Systematic and Moral Theology and Director of the Center for Theology, Science and Human Flourishing at the University of Notre Dame, USA.Rebecca Artinian-Kaiser is Assistant Director, Center for Theology, Science and Human Flourishing at the University of Notre Dame, USA.

Environmentalism is a locus theologicus of our time: in it Christian theology starts to discover the consequences of belief in God. The gospel of liberation is tested as the means for a ‘great transformation’ of society. This creates a new kind of interdisciplinary encounter between theology and other disciplines which is represented in this book in an exemplary way.

• List of FiguresList of ContributorsAcknowledgments Introduction, Celia Deane-Drummond and Rebecca Artinian-Kaiser (University of Notre Dame, USA)Prologue: ‘Understanding the Science of Climate Change’, Philip J. Sakimoto (University of Notre Dame, USA)Part I. Culture1. Ecotheology before Ecology and Environmentalism: Reclaiming the Missing Heritage of Natural Theology - Christopher Hamlin (University of Notre Dame, USA)2. Thoreau’s Woodchopper, Wordsworth’s Leech-gatherer, and the Representation of “Humble and Rustic Life” - Alda Balthrop-Lewis (Australian Catholic University, Australia)3. How Ecology Can Save the Life of Theology: A Philosophical Contribution to the Engagement of Ecology and Theology - David Kirchhoffer (Australian Catholic University, Australia)4. Key Issues in Ecological Theology: Incarnation, Evolution, Communion - Denis Edwards (Australian Catholic University, Australia)Part II. Social Science5. Creation and Creativity - Mark Hayes (Durham University, UK)6. “No Compromise in Defense of Mother Earth”: The Religion and Politics of Radical Environmentalism - Kyle William Beam (Independent Scholar, USA)7. Strategic Peacebuilding and an “Integral Ecology” - Michael Yankoski (University of Notre Dame, USA)8. Against the “Unity” of Babel: Liberation Theology and the Language of Sustainable Development - Daniel P. Castillo (Loyola University, USA)Part III. Critique9. The Environment, the Common Good, and Women’s Participation - Lisa Sowle Cahill (Boston College, USA)10. The Planetary Boundaries Framework and Food Production: A Radical Redefinition of Sustainable Development? - Johan De Tavernier (KU Leuven, Belgium)Part IV. Practice11. Restoration and Transformation: A Theological Engagement with Ecological Restoration - Rebecca Artinian-Kaiser (University of Notre Dame, USA)12. Laudato Si’ and Standing Rock: Water Justice and Indigenous Ecological Knowledge - Christiana Zenner (Fordham University, USA)13. Eating Our Way into the Care of Our Common Home - Norman Wirzba (Duke University, USA)Part V. New Directions14. Law For and From the Natural World - Mary Ellen O’Connell with Marie-Claire Klassen (University of Notre Dame, USA)15. In Defense of Biodiversity: Biodiversity in Ecology and Theology - Carmody Grey (Independent Scholar)16. Evolution:A Theology of Niche Construction for the Twenty-First Century - Celia Deane-Drummond (University of Notre Dame, USA)BibliographyIndex