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About this book
The "Earth Bible" is an international project, including volumes on ecojustice readings of major sections of the Bible. The basic aims of
the Earth Bible project are: to develop ecojustice principles appropriate to an Earth hermeneutic for interpreting the Bible and for
promoting justice and healing for Earth; to publish these interpretations as contributions to the current debate on ecology, ecoethics and ecotheology; to provide a responsible forum within which the suppressed voice of Earth may be heard and impulses for healing Earth may be generated. The project explores text and tradition from the perspective of Earth, employing a set of ecojustice principles
developed in consultation with ecologists, suspecting that the text and/or its interpreters may be anthropocentric and not geocentric, but searching to retrieve alternative traditions that hear the voice of Earth and value Earth as more than a human instrument. The lead article in Volume V is a reflection in responses to the ecojustice principles employed in the hermeneutic of the project. Several articles offer insights into New Testament texts that seem to devalue Earth in favour of heaven. The final article by Barbara Rossing challenges the popular apocalyptic notion that in the new age Earth will be terminated. A feature of this volume is a dialogue between Norman Habel, who argues that John One seems to devalue Earth, and two respondents, Elaine Wainwright and Vicky Balabanski (who is coeditor of this volume with Norman Habel). 1
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Foreword
- Editorial Preface
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- List of Contributors
- Six Ecojustice Principles
- Ecojustice Hermeneutics: Reflections and Challenges
- Matthew 6.25-34: Human Anxiety and the Natural World
- Good News–for the Earth? Reflections on Mark 1.1-15
- When Is the End Not the End? The Fate of Earth in Biblical Eschatology (Mark 13)
- Swords into Ploughshares: The End of War? (Q/Luke 9.62)
- An Ecojustice Challenge: Is Earth Valued in John 1?
- Which Intertext? A Response to An Ecojustice Challenge: Is Earth Valued in John 1?
- John 1—the Earth Bible Challenge: An Intra-textual Approach to Reading John 1
- Storing Up Death, Storing Up Life: An Earth Story in Luke 12.13-34
- Reconnecting with the Waters: John 9.1-11
- A Footstool or a Throne? Luke's Attitude to Earth (ge) in Acts 7
- The Cosmic Christ and Ecojustice in the New Cosmos (Ephesians 1)
- Earth as Host or Stranger?: Reading Hebrews 11 from Diasporan Experience
- There's a New World Coming! Reading the Apocalypse in the Shadow of the Canadian Rockies
- Alas for Earth! Lament and Resistance in Revelation 12
- Bibliography
- Index of References
- Index of Authors