Greening the Children of God

Greening the Children of God

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  • Author: Chad Michael Rimmer
  • Publisher: Lutterworth Press
  • ISBN: 071884839X
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 277

Greening the Children of God uncovers the theological roots of the growing ethical imperative to reconnect children to their natural environment. Theologians emphasize the sacramental nature of embedding our lives in creation. Environmental educators emphasize knowledge of local biology. Psychologists emphasize the morally pro-formative experience of care between biodiverse creatures. Together they affirm that knowing their place in the natural environment helps a child develop an intersubjective "ecological" identity that nurtures virtues of mutuality and care. During the Scientific Revolution this ethical harmony was threatened as science and moral theology began to adopt different epistemological methods. Seventeenth-century Anglican priest and poet Thomas Traherne was prescient of the consequences of this divorce and insisted that education should promote a child's attention to the moral dimensions woven into "the tapestry of creation." Traherne professed that play, wonder, and a sensory relationship to diverse creatures play a pedagogical role in a child's moral formation. Greening the Children of God establishes the contemporary significance of Traherne's moral theory in conversation with child psychologists, educators, philosophers, and theologians who know that cultivating a place-based relationship to the local ecology helps children perceive creation's deep mutuality and develop a moral identity in the image of a caring Creator.


Greening the Children of God

Greening the Children of God

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  • Author: Chad Michael Rimmer
  • Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
  • ISBN: 0718895770
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 278

Greening the Children of God uncovers the theological roots of the growing ethical imperative to reconnect children to their natural environment. In their different traditions, theologians, environmental educators and psychologists all affirm that knowing their place in the natural environment helps a child develop an intersubjective ‘ecological’ identity that nurtures virtues of mutuality and care. During the Scientific Revolution this ethical harmony was threatened as science and moral theology began to adopt different epistemological methods, something the Anglican priest and poet Thomas Traherne was all too aware of. Traherne insisted that education should promote a child’s attention to the moral dimensions woven into ‘the tapestry of creation’, and professed that play, wonder, and a sensory relationship to diverse creatures play a pedagogical role in a child’s moral formation. Greening the Children of God establishes the contemporary significance of Traherne’s moral theory in conversation with child psychologists, educators, philosophers, and theologians who know that cultivating a place-based relationship to the local ecology helps children perceive creation’s deep mutuality and develop a moral identity in the image of a caring Creator.


The Greening of Faith

The Greening of Faith

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  • Author: John Edward Carroll
  • Publisher: UPNE
  • ISBN: 9780874517774
  • Category : Human ecology
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 254

Interdisciplinary and interfaith essays exploring the religious and spiritual implications of human interaction with nature and the environment.


The Voluble Soul

The Voluble Soul

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  • Author: Richard Wilmott
  • Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
  • ISBN: 071889569X
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 286

“The world’s fair beauty set my soul on fire.” In this first study of the full range of Traherne’s poetry Richard Willmott explains his ‘metaphysical’ poetry to all who are attracted by the beauty of his language, but puzzled by his meaning. He offers guidance both for the student of English, uncertain about Traherne’s theological ideas, and the student of theology, put off by seventeenth-century poetic conventions and diction. Using a wealth of quotation, he examines Traherne’s verse alongside that of a variety of his contemporaries, including Andrew Marvell, Lucy Hutchinson, Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor. Central to Traherne’s poetry and generous theology is his delight in the capacity of his soul to approach God through an appreciation of His infinite creation. This soul is ‘voluble’, not only because it can express its thoughts with fluency, but also because it can enfold within itself the infinity of God’s creation, taking in everything that it perceives, considering the latest scientific speculations about the atom and astronomy, but also looking clear-sightedly at Restoration society’s materialism and – in one startlingly savage satire – the corruption of the royal court.


Green Church

Green Church

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  • Author: Rebekah Simon-Peter
  • Publisher: Abingdon Press
  • ISBN: 1426702922
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 102

"God saw everything that he had made, and indeed, it was very good." -Genesis 1:31 What the Bible says about taking care of the earth. From extreme weather events to oil spills to climate change, Planet Earth is in the news. What does this mean for Christians and how does it impact the life of faith? Green Church answers these questions in ways both hopeful and engaging. Citing both Scripture and science, Rebekah Simon-Peter weaves together personal stories of Sabbath, gardening, recycling, mentoring, and the power of faith. She challenges us to consider our role in the care of creation and to help steward the earth for future generations. Includes Green Facts, Spotlight on Science and Greening the Church follow up steps. Use as a stand-alone book, small group selection or as part of a church wide campaign. You can study the book by yourself or get a small group together at your church and work through the book together using the Green Church Leader Guide. Use the resources for Children and Youth at the same time for a churchwide study. Whether reading the book on your own or participating in a study, don't forget to get a copy of 7 Simple Steps to Green Your Church, which will show you how to implement a green plan at your church. Be sure to Like Green Church at www.Facebook.com/GreenChurch "What a remarkable Book! Green Church is the most direct, attractive, and no-nonsense argument I have yet seen for the holy obligations to Christian greennes. This and its companion volume, 7 Simple Steps to Green Your Church, should be 'must reads' for every church in North America." ~ Phillis Tickle, author of The Great Emergence: How Christianity Is Changing and Why


The Greening of Protestant Thought

The Greening of Protestant Thought

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  • Author: Robert Booth Fowler
  • Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
  • ISBN: 0807861537
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 253

The Greening of Protestant Thought traces the increasing influence of environmentalism on American Protestantism since the first Earth Day, which took place in 1970. Robert Booth Fowler explores the extent to which ecological concerns permeate Protestant thought and examines contemporary controversies within and between mainline and fundamentalist Protestantism over the Bible's teachings about the environment. Fowler explores the historical roots of environmentalism in Protestant thought, including debates over God's relationship to nature and the significance of the current environmental crisis for the history of Christianity. Although he argues that mainline Protestantism is becoming increasingly 'green,' he also examines the theological basis for many fundamentalists' hostility toward the environmental movement. In addition, Fowler considers Protestantism's policy agendas for environmental change, as well as the impact on mainline Protestant thinking of modern eco-theologies, process and creation theologies, and ecofeminism.


Green Like God

Green Like God

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  • Author: Jonathan Merritt
  • Publisher: Hachette UK
  • ISBN: 044656916X
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 208

In Green Like God, Jonathan Merritt gently and insightfully observes that the bible has a lot to say about environmental problems like unclean water, material waste, over consumption, air pollution, and global warming. In fact, Jonathan writes that "in the book of Genesis, God went green and never looked back." Relying heavily on scripture, Jonathan gives the case for green living, but not because it's trendy and hip. Rather, it's part of living rightly as a believer. It's an act of obedience to our Creator-God. Green Like God is at once practical, prescriptive, and conversational in tone. The author looks at a number of trends with tips to help the reader wade into the world of creation care living. An appendix includes suggestions of things we can do. In addition, the book includes interviews with everyday Christians to tell the story of the journey to environmental stewardship among people of faith. This is the book that Christians are longing for and need today. Written for a new generation of Christians who are struggling with how to deal with the important issue of creation-care and green living, Green Like God is both highly relevant and theologically sound. It will have a profound impact on how Christians live and interact with the world today.


'Greening God's Earth with Verse'

'Greening God's Earth with Verse'

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  • Author: Paul Bebbington
  • Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
  • ISBN: 1664112391
  • Category : Poetry
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 36

It’s invaluable to relax and spend time with people of different generations to oneself. .. both youngsters and the elderly. With regard to our World’s future, teenagers need to be challenged in different ways. The residential holidays I helped with - through Face2Face Educational Trust- have been as much a blessing to me, as to the youth’s participating. The trust, overseen by Kevin Moore, has run Checkmate ( chess ) and Sketchpad (art) weeks, in a rural centre in Bedfordshire many times. All Face2Face events aim to introduce participants to the Christian faith too. It was at one such week that I started to pen my longest poem..‘Son’s of Adam’, when my Christian faith was being challenged by life’s events. During travels around the U.K., I devised some less serious odes too.. ‘Micromoth’ being one, and ‘Evan Evans’. Poetry has helped me reminisce about favourite places and memories. I have included 3 poems about Italy in this selection. But a recent painful season ( bereavement of my mother ) also focused me to compose ‘Lotus Lily’ .. in her memory, a poem which is deeply emotive to me. The Biblical king, David, found himself expressing many raw feelings to God recalled for us, in the book of Psalms - from which I have drawn much inspiration. Ps. 19 vs 1 ‘ The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament shows his handiwork.’ Ps 42 . vs 1& 2 ‘ As the deer pant s for living water, so pants my soul for You, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?’


God is Green

God is Green

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  • Author: Bob Shore-Goss
  • Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • ISBN: 1498299199
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 300

At this time of climate crisis, here is a practical Christian ecospirituality. It emerges from the pastoral and theological experience of Reverend Robert Shore-Goss, who worked with his congregation by making the earth a member of the church, by greening worship, and by helping the church building and operations attain a carbon neutral footprint. Shore-Goss explores an ecospirituality grounded in incarnational compassion. Practicing incarnational compassion means following the lived praxis of Jesus and the commission of the risen Christ as Gardener. Jesus becomes the "green face of God." Restrictive Christian spiritualities that exclude the earth as an original blessing of God must expand. This expansion leads to the realization that the incarnation of Christ has deep roots in the earth and the fleshly or biological tissue of life. This book aims to foster ecological conversation in churches and outlines the following practices for congregations: meditating on nature, inviting sermons on green topics, covenanting with the earth, and retrieving the natural elements of the sacraments. These practices help us recover ourselves as fleshly members of the earth and the network of life. If we fall in love with God's creation, says Shore-Goss, we will fight against climate change.


God is Not 'green'

God is Not 'green'

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  • Author: Adrian Michael Hough
  • Publisher: Gracewing Publishing
  • ISBN: 9780852443071
  • Category : Ecology
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 212

A thought-provoking account challenging the idea that Christianity has little to say in the ecological arena. Explores the ways in which traditional Christian teaching and practice provide an adequate response to the ecological issues now facing the planet. The author seeks to make sense of the causes and possible solutions to the current environmental crisis while pointing out important consequences for the Church, its ethics, and liturgy.