Mark Wallace

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  Green Christianity : Five Ways To A Sustainable Future

  $29.00

  The central message of this book is that religion has a special role to play in saving the planet. Religion has the unique power to fire the imagination and empower the will to break the cycle of addiction to nonrenewable energy. The environmental crisis is a crisis not of the head but of the heart. The problem is not that we do not know how to stop climate change but rather that we lack the inner strength to redirect our culture and economy toward a sustainable future. Only a bold and courageous faith can undergird a long-term commitment to change. This book is a call to hope, not despair-a survey of promising directions and a call for readers to discover meaning and purpose in their lives through a spiritually charged commitment to saving the Earth.

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  Finding God In The Singing River

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  Illustrations
  Preface
  Introduction
  1.God Is Green
  The Earth Crisis Is A Spiritual Crisis / Ecocidal Addiction
  The Historic Agon Of Spirit And Flesh
  Earth, Air, Water, Fire
  2.The Mother Bird God
  God On The Wing / The Trinity And Paganism / Is God Female?
  Biblical Imagery Of The Earthen Mother Spirit
  3.Green Spirituality, Brownfields, And Wilderness Recovery
  The Current Environmental Debate
  Toxic Sacrifice Zones And The Quest For Justice
  Deep Ecology And Wilderness Activism
  Mediating The Debate, Green Spirituality, And Market Values
  4.Green Spirituality And The Problem Of Humanism
  Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax / The Priority Of Human Being
  The Problem Of Universal Reason In Humanist Thought
  The Problem Of Species Chauvinism In Humanist Thought
  Extending The Horizon Of Morality To Include All Life-forms
  5.Green Spirituality And The Invitation Of Postmodernism
  The Challenge Of Deconstructionism
  Is Nature Real? / Riding The Cusp
  Green Theology In A Postmodern, Constructionist Context
  Kenneth Gergen’s Social Constructionism
  6.Earth God As The Wounded Spirit
  In The Vatican Museums / The Cruciform Spirit
  Spirit And Earth, Union Of Heart / The Wounded God
  Eating The Body And Drinking The Blood Of God
  7.The World Is Alive With Spirit
  A Council Of All Beings Ritual
  Sojourning In The Crum Woods
  The Crum Woods Under Siege
  The Crum Woods As The Wounded Sacred
  Is The Crum Woods An Idol? / My Return To The River
  Notes
  Index

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  We live in an age of vast and rapid destruction of habitats and species. Yet Christianity holds great potential for healing this situation. Indeed, the Bible and Christian tradition are a treasure trove of rich images and stories about God as an “earthen” being who sustains the natural world with compassion and thereby models for humankind environmentally healthy ways of being.

  Mark Wallace’s stimulating book retrieves a central but often neglected biblical theme – the idea of God as carnal Spirit who indwells all things – as the basis for constructing a “green spirituality” responsive to the environmental needs of our time.

  In the biblical tradition, he writes, God as Spirit is an ecological presence that shows itself to us daily by living in and through the earth. One message of Christianity, therefore, is celebration of the bodily, material world – ancient redwoods, vernal springs, broad-winged hawks, everyday pigweed – as the place that God indwells and cares for in order to maintain the well-being of our common planetary home.

  Alongside his green reading of the Bible and tradition, Wallace employs the resources of deep ecology, Neopagan spirituality, and the environmental justice movement to rethink Christianity as an earth-based, body-loving religion. He also analyzes color images reproduced in the book. Wallace’s bold yet careful work reawakens our sense of the sacrality of the earth and the life that the trinitarian God creates there. It also grounds the impulses of New Age spirituality in a profoundly biblical notion of God’s being and activity.

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  Figuring The Sacred

  $39.00

  The thought of Paul Ricoeur continues its profound effect on theology, religious studies, and biblical interpretation. Introduced by Mark Wallace, the twenty-one papers collected in this volume-some familiar, many translated here for the first time-constitute the most comprehensive anthology of Ricoeur’s writings in religion since 1970. The writings are thematically divided into five parts: the study of religion, philosophers of religion, the Bible and genre, theological overtures and practical theology.

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