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Climate and Christ describes what climate change is and how it happens, and suggests ways in which ordinary people can help to mitigate it. It also describes the process of evolution, and proposes that Christian ecology must henceforth integrate evolution. a chapter on Jesus' Christ discusses Jesus own ecology, from birth to resurrection, including the 'agrarian' Jewish ethos which he inherited and lived in his own alternative itinerant lifestyle, preparing and preaching the kingdom. A final chapter makes suggestions for our own 'prophetic alternative' lifestyles inspired by Christ. This includes the principles of local sustainability, and an agrarian economics not predicated on everlasting 'growth', because we have reached the end of earth's biocapacity. We henceforth need alternative lifestyles of quality, earth care, and sharing.
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Edward P. Echlin is an ecological theologian, writer and lecturer in eco-theology, and partly self-sufficient alternative lifestyle. He is Honorary Reseearch Fellow in Theology, University College of Trinity and All Saints, Leeds; and Visiting Scholar, Sarum College, Salisbury. Dr Echlin grows organic fruist and vegetables at Bexhill, East Sussex. He is the author of many books, including The Cosmic Circle, Jesus and Ecology (Columba Press, 2004).
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Climate and Christ - The Imitation of Christ as a solution to climate change
23 Oct 2010
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Climate and Christ - A Prophetic Alternative
by Edward P. Echlin, Columbia Press, 2010, 134 pp., ISBN 978-1-85607-690-6, $15.95 (paper).
This well-researched, eloquently written discussion by a Christian eco-theologian, of climate change and the wisdom of integrating science and faith to counter the environmental ravages of deforestation, habitat destruction and overpopulation, is a "meeting of the minds" in which the author quotes many of the world's greatest theologians and scientists from Teilhard de Chardin to Charles Darwin, from Rachel Carson to Pope John Paul II.
An avid gardener, Echlin notes with a sense of forbidding the changes occurring in his English garden, including his planting and harvesting schedules, the disappearance of familiar wildlife, early and late blooming flora, and unpredictable rainfall, all of which he sees as harbingers of future food, water and political insecurity.
Echlin discusses the role of evolution in Christian theology, the principles of positive and negative feedback, his Proximity Principle which encourages living sustainably locally, and his In-depth Principle which discourages carbon consuming air travel and encourages learning about one's own "bioregion". He touches upon the "dirty little secret" of food waste, and the corporate takeover of food production. He reiterates the need for sustainable energy, and the environmentalist mantras of "Reduce, reuse, recycle," and "Live simply that others might simply live." He advocates imitating Christ's simple agrarian lifestyle (the prophetic alternative), and calling upon the Christian virtues of faith, hope, and love to heal our embattled planet.
Many of Echlin's suggestions are familiar ones. The "grow your own" movement is an echo of 1960's counterculture. What is different about this book, is that it proposes a faith-centered, in addition to a scientific solution to the problems of global warming.
A must-read for all who seek to understand and reverse the negative effects of climate change, from a faith-centered perspective, through individual and community action.
Also by this author:
The Cosmic Circle. Jesus and Ecology (2004)
Christian Green Heritage (1990)
Earth Spirituality. Jesus at the Centre (1999)
Live Simply. Let others Live. (2007)
by Edward P. Echlin, Columbia Press, 2010, 134 pp., ISBN 978-1-85607-690-6, $15.95 (paper).
This well-researched, eloquently written discussion by a Christian eco-theologian, of climate change and the wisdom of integrating science and faith to counter the environmental ravages of deforestation, habitat destruction and overpopulation, is a "meeting of the minds" in which the author quotes many of the world's greatest theologians and scientists from Teilhard de Chardin to Charles Darwin, from Rachel Carson to Pope John Paul II.
An avid gardener, Echlin notes with a sense of forbidding the changes occurring in his English garden, including his planting and harvesting schedules, the disappearance of familiar wildlife, early and late blooming flora, and unpredictable rainfall, all of which he sees as harbingers of future food, water and political insecurity.
Echlin discusses the role of evolution in Christian theology, the principles of positive and negative feedback, his Proximity Principle which encourages living sustainably locally, and his In-depth Principle which discourages carbon consuming air travel and encourages learning about one's own "bioregion". He touches upon the "dirty little secret" of food waste, and the corporate takeover of food production. He reiterates the need for sustainable energy, and the environmentalist mantras of "Reduce, reuse, recycle," and "Live simply that others might simply live." He advocates imitating Christ's simple agrarian lifestyle (the prophetic alternative), and calling upon the Christian virtues of faith, hope, and love to heal our embattled planet.
Many of Echlin's suggestions are familiar ones. The "grow your own" movement is an echo of 1960's counterculture. What is different about this book, is that it proposes a faith-centered, in addition to a scientific solution to the problems of global warming.
A must-read for all who seek to understand and reverse the negative effects of climate change, from a faith-centered perspective, through individual and community action.
Also by this author:
The Cosmic Circle. Jesus and Ecology (2004)
Christian Green Heritage (1990)
Earth Spirituality. Jesus at the Centre (1999)
Live Simply. Let others Live. (2007)
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