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Wind, Sun, Soil, Spirit: Biblical Ethics and Climate Change
Author(s): Carol S. Robb Pimm (Author)
- Publisher: Fortress Press
- Publication Date: 25 Jan. 2010
- Language: English
- Print length: 208 pages
- ISBN-10: 0800697065
- ISBN-13: 9780800697068
Book Description
How can Christians contribute to the debates about climate change and global warming? What ethical criteria do they bring to the conversation? How does the Bible figure in their deliberation?Carol Robb brings together the several dimensions of this one overarching issue of our lifetimes: hers is an ecological ethics in theological perspective, and it integrates economic theory, environmental policy, and most distinctively New Testament studies. Alongside deliberation on scenarios for the future in light of climate change and assessing criteria for ethical policy in this area, she reflects on implications of the New Testament worldview for ethics now. Relating Jesus’ life, ministry, and teachings to the resurrection, then probing how Paul and other early followers of Jesus related to the empire, Robb provides a surprisingly fruitful fund of ideas for Christian responsibility in this area.
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About the Author
Carol S. Robb is Margaret Dollar Professor of Christian Social Ethics, San Francisco Theological Seminary. Her work centers on ethics, economics, and environment; and she is author of Equal Value: An Ethical Approach to Economics and Sex (1995), editor of the influential Making the Connections by Beverly Wildung Harrison (1985), and contributor to many journals and volumes.
