The Bible and Ecology: Rediscovering the Community of Creation

The Bible and Ecology: Rediscovering the Community of Creation

Some texts - especially Job - put us "in our place," and suggest an "appreciation of wild nature" and wilderness (p. 114) as inherently good and valuable, even if not always benign to humans. [...] just as creation can praise God (Ps 148), so it can mourn human immorality with ec...

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Veröffentlicht in:Interpretation (Richmond) 2011, Vol.65 (4), p.422
1. Verfasser: Mann, Thomas W
Format: Review
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Bible
Ecology
Nonfiction
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Zusammenfassung:Some texts - especially Job - put us "in our place," and suggest an "appreciation of wild nature" and wilderness (p. 114) as inherently good and valuable, even if not always benign to humans. [...] just as creation can praise God (Ps 148), so it can mourn human immorality with ecological consequences (eg., drought; Hos 4:1-3, 23-28; Jer 12:4; Rom 8:18-23; there are also several allusions to climate change).
ISSN:0020-9643
2159-340X
DOI:10.1177/002096431106500420