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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 261.88
EAN num: 9780800662714
ISBN number: 0800662717
Label: Fortress Press
Manufacturer: Fortress Press
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 176
Printing Date: May 01, 2008
Publishing house: Fortress Press
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Climate change promises monumental changes to human and other planetary life in the subsequent generations. Yet government, business, and individuals have been largely in denial of the possibility that global warming may put our species on the road to extinction. Further, says Sallie McFague, we have failed to see the real root of our behavioral troubles in an economic model that actually reflects distorted religious views of the person. At its heart, she maintains, global warming occurs because we lack an appropriate understanding of ourselves as inextricably bound to the planet and its systems.
A New Climate for Theology not only traces the distorted notion of unlimited desire that fuels our market system; it also paints an alternative idea of what being human means and what a just and sustainable economy might mean. Convincing, specific, and wise, McFague argues for an alternative economic order and for our relational identity as part of an unfolding universe that expresses divine love and human freedom. It is a view that can inspire real change, an altered lifestyle, and a form of Christian discipleship and desire appropriate to who we really are.
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This is an important and timely book. In it, Sallie McFague offers fresh insights into the challenges to contemporary existence posed by global warming, and she develops a theology that responds to those challenges with wisdom, imagination, and courage. Among other things, readers will appreciate the clarity of McFague's thinking, the accessibility of her writing, and the everyday usefulness of her theology.
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