Saving Beauty: A Theological Aesthetics of Nature (Online)
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Kathryn B. Alexander
Argues that natural beauty is a source of religious insight into the need and way of salvation, and this project develops a theological aesthetics of nature and beauty with an aim toward cultivating a theological and ethical framework for redeemed life as participation in ecological community.
Ask the Beasts: Darwin and the God of Love (Online)
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Elizabeth A. Johnson
An examination of the relationship between faith in God and the concept of ecological care within a crisis of biodiversity. Concludes that love of the natural world is an intrinsic element of faith in God and that far from being an add-on, ecological care is at the center of moral life.
The Body of God: An Ecological Theology
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Sallie McFague
McFague analyzes a range of major theological issues through the imaginative paradigm of the world as God’s body. Such a paradigm, she says, provides Christian thinkers with a helpful critique of traditional theological models that subordinate the immanence of God in the created world. McFague posits reimagined doctrines of humanity, sin, and evil.