Love in a time of climate change : honoring creation, establishing justice /

Love in a Time of Climate Change challenges readers to develop a loving response to climate change, which disproportionately harms the poor, threatens future generations, and damages God's creation. This book creatively adapts John Wesley's theological method by using scripture, tradition,...

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Main Author: Delgado, Sharon E. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : Fortress Press, [2017]
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction : love in a time of climate change
  • part I. Discerning the truth about climate change
  • 2. Climate change : a sign of the times
  • 3. Scripture, tradition, reason, and experience : tools for discernment
  • part II. Honoring creation
  • 4. Scripture : hearing creation's groans
  • 5. Tradition : the wisdom of God in creation
  • 6. Reason : the new creation story
  • 7. Experience : creation as sacrament
  • part III. Establishing justice
  • 8. Scripture : transforming the Jericho Road
  • 9. Tradition : social holiness on a warming planet
  • 10. Reason : climate justice and common sense
  • 11. Experience : on the front lines of climate change
  • 12. Conclusion : love of God and neighbor
  • a faithful response to climate change.