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Title:
Ask the beasts : Darwin and the God of love / Elizabeth A. Johnson.
Author:
Johnson, Elizabeth A., 1941- author.
Publication Information:
London : Bloomsbury, 2015.

©2014.
Call Number:
BT695.5 .J63 2014
Abstract:
"For millennia plant and animal species have received little sustained attention as subjects of Christian theology and ethics in their own right. Focused on the human dilemma of sin and redemptive grace, theology has considered the doctrine of creation to be mainly an overture to the main drama of human being's relationship to God. What value does the natural world have within the framework of religious belief? The crisis of biodiversity in our day, when species are going extinct at more than 1,000 times the natural rate, renders this question acutely important.Standard perspectives need to be realigned; theology needs to look out of the window, so to speak as well as in the mirror. Ask the Beasts: Darwin and the God of Love leads to the conclusion 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 centre of moral life,"--Amazon.com.
Edition:
Paperback edition.
ISBN:
9781472924018
Physical Description:
xvi, 323 pages ; 22 cm.
General Note:
Originally published: 2014.
Contents:
Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1. Beasts and Entangled Bank: A Dialogue -- 2. "When We Look..." -- 3. "Endless Forms Most Beautiful" -- 4. Evolution of the Theory -- 5. The Dwelling Place of God -- 6. Free, Empowered Creation -- 7. All Creation Groaning -- 8. Bearer of Great Promise -- 9. Enter the Humans -- 10. The Community of Creation -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index.
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