Sallie McFague
Subtitle: collected readings
By: David B. Lott, editor
Contributors: Lott, David B., editor
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9780800699888; 9781451465174
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Human ecology; Religious aspects; Theology; Ecotheology
Other titles: Collected readings
Work titles: Works
Description: Sallie McFague offers a lucid and powerful guide to theological thinking about God and the world, individual and community, humanity and nature, reality and metaphor, the sacramental and the prophetic, and the critical issue of climate change for today's world. She calls Christians to new feeling, new acting, and new thinking.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: a religious autobiography; title: Part I. The language of theology : parables, metaphors, and models. A trial run: parable, poem, and autobiographical story; title: Parables as metaphors; title: Creeds: models or dogmas; title: God as mother, lover, and friend; title: A meditation on Exodus 33:23b; title: Part II. Theology and spirituality : metaphorical, ecological, and kenotic approaches. Metaphorical theology; title: Metaphors, models, and concepts; title: Theology of nature: remythologizing Christian doctrine; title: Consider the lilies of the field; title: The ecological model and Christian spirituality; title: How shall we live? : Christianity and planetary economics; title: A spirituality for the whole planet / kenotic theology; title: Part III. Constructing theology : God, humans, and the world. The Christian paradigm; title: Sin: the refusal to accept our place; title: Human existence in the Spirit; title: Christ and the ecological economic worldview; title: God and the world; title: "The dearest freshness deep down things": the Holy Spirit and climate change; title: Who are we human beings?; title: Falling in love with God and the world: some reflections on the doctrine of God.