Sessions & Notes (click, to download)

1.     Methodology … Useful Sites ... Ecological Concerns

2.     Perspectives on Ecology and the Bible ... Israel ... Bible
... Salvation History or Creation Theology?

3.     Creation Accounts in the Bible ... Habel's "Geophany" ...
... Humans and Creation ... Circle of Creation

4.     Covenant ... Exodus ... Covenant Today
... Earth Charter Initiative

5.     Land ... Land Today ... Bandwagon

6.     Has the Prophetic Critique Anything to say to Ecology?
... Jonah ... Prophecy Today

7.     Wisdom Texts and Ecology ... Psalms

8.     Jesus in His Environment; ... Ecological Gospels
... Nature in the Passion Narratives ... The Cosmic Christ

9.     "A New Heavens and a New Earth?"
... The Book of Revelation Today

10.     The Spirit and Ecology ... Spirit as Earthen Reality

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Clifford, R.J., Collins, J.J. Creation in the Biblical Tradition (CBQ Mono 24), Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America, 1992

Edwards, D. Ecology at the Heart of Faith, Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2006

Habel, N.C. (ed.) Readings from the Perspective of the Earth (The Earth Bible 1-4), Sheffield: Academic Press, 2000

Hessel, D.T., Radford Ruether, R. (eds.) Christianity and Ecology: Seeking the Well-Being of Earth and Humans, Cambridge, MS: Harvard University Press, 2000

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