Foreword - John Cobb Jr.
Introduction - "Heaven and Nature Sing": Introduction - Melissa
Brotton
Section I: Creation Care and the Sabbath
Chapter 1 - Friends of the Creator: A Theological Foundation
for Earth-keeping Ethics - Ginger Harwood
Chapter 2 - A Biblical Land Ethic? A Response to Aldo Leopold
- Ellen Bernstein
Chapter 3 - Sanctification as Impetus for Creation Care in
Adventism - Young-Chun Kim
Section II: Sacramental Approaches
Chapter 4 - Ecotheology and Enchantment: How Wendell Berry Helps
Re-vision the World - Doug Sikkema
Chapter 5 - Salmon Theology and Spokane Falls: Catholicism and
Restorative Justice in Sherman Alexie’s Poetry - Chad
Wriglesworth
Section III: Classical and Medieval Cosmologies and Music
Chapter 6 - "All Nature Sings and Round Me Rings the Music of
the Spheres": Christianity and the Transmission of a Cosmic
Ecomusicology - David Kendall
Chapter 7 - Stewards of Arda: Creation and Sustenance in J.R.R.
Tolkien's Legendarium - Samuel McBride
Section IV: Ecotheodicy and Ecojustice
Chapter 8 - With Heads Craning Forward: The Eschaton and the
Nonhuman in Romans 8 - Mick Pope
Chapter 9 - Aronofsky's Noah: An Invitation for Ecotheology - Ron
Jolliffe
Chapter 10 - "Not a Tame Lion": Animal Compassion and Ecotheology
of Human Imagination in Four Anglican Thinkers - John Gatta
Chapter 11 - "Lost Angel in the Earth": Ecotheodicy in Elizabeth
Barrett Browning's "A Drama of Exile" - Melissa Brotton
Afterword - Robert R. Gottfried
Melissa Brotton is assistant professor of English and communications at La Sierra University.
This book is like a breath of fresh air. Many ecotheologians have
begun to pay more attention to literature of wider relevance,
including agrarian writers such as Aldo Leopold and Wendell Berry.
What has not yet happened, and what this book beautifully
illustrates, is that those working in the environmental humanities
are able to make a vitally important contribution to ecotheology. I
fully endorse the premise of this book that it is high time for a
much richer trans-disciplinary conversation to take place and for
those in the environmental humanities to wake up to the resources
embedded in religious and explicitly ecotheological literature. As
this is worked out in practice, some brilliantly original elements
come to the surface and take the field forward in new ways. The
inclusion of the importance of music, for example, is rarely if
ever discussed in ecotheology literatures. This book will be
fascinating both for those beginning to encounter this field and
the seasoned scholar.
*Celia Deane-Drummond, professor of theology, University of Notre
Dame*
I am in love with this timely and ground-breaking book for the way
it combines incisive thinking and beauty of expression; for a
vocabulary that includes eco-theology, eco-theodicy,
eco-missiology, and eco-esthetics; for the competent voices
speaking from the vantage point of theology, biblical studies,
music, poetry, literature, and film; and for leading us to a
culture of life and plenitude in theory and practice.
*Sigve K. Tonstad, Loma Linda University*
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