Eco-Reformation: Grace and Hope for a Planet in Peril
by
Lisa E. Dahill; Jim B. Martin-Schramm
The conviction at the heart of this collection of essays is that a gospel call for ecological justice belongs at the heart of the five hundredth anniversary observance of the Reformation in 2017 and as a--if not the--central dimension of Christian conversion, faith, and practice into the foreseeable future.
The Groaning of Creation: God, Evolution, and the Problem of Evil
by
Christopher Southgate
Shows how the world that is "very good" is also "groaning in travail" and subjected by God to that travail. Southgate then evaluates several attempts at evolutionary theodicy and argues for his own approach--an approach that takes full account of God's self-emptying and human beings' special responsibilities as created co-creators.
Partaking of God: Trinity, Evolution, and Ecology (Online)
by
Denis Edwards
Builds on the foundations of the dynamic trinitarian theology of Athanasius. It develops into a theology of the Word as the divine Attractor and the Spirit as the Energy of Love in evolutionary emergence. It culminates in a Christian theology of ecological conversion.
Rooted and Grounded in Love
by
Timothy Reinhold Eberhart
Drawing on the holiness-communitarian and agrarian-ecological traditions, Rooted and Grounded in Love provides a systematic theological affirmation of holiness as divine wholeness in examining our present industrial agro-economy while also promoting a practical vision for how Christians might participate in the emergence of a more ecologically sustaining, economically charitable, and politically just food system.
Gaia and Climate Change: A Theology of Gift Events
by
Anne Primavesi
Primavesi imagines a shift away from a theology that emphasizes a violent, imperialistic notion of God to an ecological theology of “gift events.” Drawing upon theology, philosophy, and history, she envisions the ecological crisis of climate change in terms of gift-giving and James Lovelock’s Gaia hypothesis.