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For the Life of the World

An Eastern Christian Approach to Nature and Environmental Care

Av Robin Gibbons, Joseph Prud'homme

Del 12 i serien Washington College Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture

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For the Life of the World: An Eastern Christian Approach to Nature and Environmental Care explores climate change and global ecological issues via the ability of Christianity—one of the world’s most frequently practiced religions—to provide insight. Author Robin Gibbons outlines the tradition of prior Christian involvement in the issue, drawing upon ideas of freely given care and human stewardship of the world. Recently, the issue of climate change and the Christian community’s inability to act against it has been characterized by a disconnect between human life and nature, with the biblical model of human stewardship subsumed by politics, business, and greed. In contrast, this book advocates for embracing an older model of Christian thought, theoretically surmounting the consequences of climate disaster through care and respect for nature.
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Robin Gibbons is a Melkite-Catholic priest and Ecumenical Canon of Christ Church Cathedral (Oxford). He also serves as the Director of Studies in Theology and Religion in the University of Oxford’s Department for Continuing Education and specializes in Eastern Christianity and the tradition of Christian-provided charity.

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“With Laudato Si’, Pope Francis placed environmental theology firmly within Catholic social teaching, not only as duty and virtue but because of the ordering of creation and each human’s place in society on the Earth out of which we were made. Robin Gibbons shows that this is not just an extrapolation from theology applied to the politics and scientific anxieties of the early twenty-first century but integral to the tradition of both East and West, Catholic and Orthodox. With light from the East as a Melkite Greek Catholic priest, he sets the Church at the forefront of stewardship ‘for the life of the world’, presenting the spiritual case for its salvation and preservation and thus its future growth towards perfection rather than loss.”—Father Mark Woodruff, Chairman of Society of St John Chrysostom

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