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The Greening of Faith : God, the Environment, and the Good Life
author
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Carroll, John E.
publisher
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University Press of New England
isbn10 | asin
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0874517761
print isbn13
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9780874517767
ebook isbn13
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9780585241340
language
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English
subject
Nature--Religious aspects, Human ecology--Religious aspects.
publication date
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1997
lcc
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BL65.N35G47 1997eb
ddc
:
291.1/78362
subject
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Nature--Religious aspects, Human ecology--Religious aspects.
Page iii
The Greening of Faith
God, the Environment, and the Good Life
Edited by John E. Carroll Paul Brockelman Mary Westfall
Foreword by Bill McKibben
Page iv
University of New Hampshire Published by University Press of New England, Hanover, NH 03755 1997 by The Trustees of the University of New Hampshire; Foreword 1997 by Bill McKibben All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America 5 4 3 2 1 CIP data appear at the end of the book
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CONTENTS
Foreword
Bill McKibben
vii
Introduction: Getting Our Bearings
1
Part 1 A Call to Awaken
1 Some Notes from Belshaz'zar's Feast
Timothy C. Weiskel
11
2 With New Eyes: Seeing the Environment as a Spiritual Issue
Paul Brockelman
30
3 The Wisdom of Reverence for Life
Steven C. Rockefeller
44
Part 2 Old Paths, New Ground
4 Join the Chorus, Recapture the Rhythms
Rabbi Everett Gendler
67
5 A Contemporary Evangelical Perspective
Calvin B. Dewitt
79
6 The Sacred Whole: An Ecumenical Protestant Approach
Jay McDaniel
105
7 A Catholic Approach
Albert J. Fritsch, S.J.
125
Part 3 In a Different Voice
8 The Gridlock of Domination: A Buddhist Response to Environmental Suffering
Stephanie Kaza
141
9 Seeing the Whole
Twobears
158
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10 Composting Our Connections: Toward a Spirituality of Relation
Catherine Keller
165
Part 4 Broadening the Scope
11 On Balance, Replenishment, and an Ecological Ethic That Works
John E. Carroll
179
12 The Architecture of the Soul: Sacred Process Ecopsychology
Albert J. Lachance
190
13 The Universe Story: Its Religious Significance
Thomas Berry
208
14 Afterword: A Journey of the Heart
Mary Westfall
219
List of Contributors
227
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FOREWORD
Bill McKibben
For a very long time, people we have thought of as spiritual leaders have recommended similar thingssimplicity, a pleasure in service, contact with one's fellows and with the natural world, humility. From Buddha and Jesus through St. Francis and Thoreau, straight through to Gandhi, we have tended to idealize these figures in theory, and in practice to ignore them as cranks.
One of the many features that makes the present moment so interesting is the emergence of another caste of shamans with similar conclusions. This time they're atmospheric chemists, physicists, and the like. And they are advising simplicity, communityperhaps not in so many words, but that is the clear implication of their data about phenomena like global warming. Only a new idea of who we are would allow for the changes necessary to reverse the damagewould allow us to replace cars with buses, for instance. In our hyperindividualism, our hypermaterialism, we have simply become too large for the planet.
At heart, this question of scale is a religious question. Who is at the center of affairs? We have behaved for quite a long time as if we were, and it is this assumption that drives most of the environmental dilemmas we face. (It may cause many of the spiritual emptinesses we confront as well.) Now we need somehow to rediscover an older formula: that the tribe or nature or God, or most likely some amalgam of the three, is at the center of things. In such a world it becomes possible to imagine certain limits, to imagine fulfilling our unique ability as a species to limit ourselves.
Theologians and religious institutions will be of enormous help in this quest, as this volume makes clear. No other institutions and virtually no other intellectuals are even potentially immune to the infection that several writers herein describe as "growthism." Business believes it must grow; edu-
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