The Earth Story in the New Testament: Volume 5, Volume 5The "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 |
Contents
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Human Anxiety and the Natural World | 15 |
Good Newsfor the Earth? Reflections on Mark 1115 | 28 |
When Is the End Not the End? The Fate of Earth in Biblical Eschatology Mark 13 | 44 |
The End of War? QLuke 962 | 57 |
Is Earth Valued in John 1? | 76 |
Is Earth Valued in John 1? | 83 |
An Intratextual Approach to Reading John 1 | 89 |
A Footstool or a Throne? Lukes Attitude to Earth ge in Acts 7 | 122 |
The Cosmic Christ and Ecojustice in the New Cosmos Ephesians 1 | 137 |
Reading Hebrews 11 from Diasporan Experience | 148 |
Theres a New World Coming Reading the Apocalypse in the Shadow of the Canadian Rockies | 166 |
Alas for Earth Lament and Resistance in Revelation 12 | 180 |
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