Encountering Earth : Thinking Theologically With a More-Than-Human World.
| Author/creator | Bechtel, Trevor |
| Other author | Eaton, Matt. |
| Other author | Harvie, Tim. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Eugene : Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2018. |
| Description | 1 online resource (276 pages) |
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| Subjects |
| Contents | The cruciform lap : suffering and the common life of cats, chickens, and couples / Trevor George Hunsberger Bechtel -- The story of Max / John Berkman -- On the eyes of a cat and the curve of his claw : companion animals as first theology / Matthew Eaton -- Animals as eschatology : struggle, communion, and the relational task of theology / Timothy Harvie -- My life with Morris : a feminist account of friendship and conversion in a bicultural context / Grace Y. Kao -- Farm and lab born to be wild? : emergent wisdom through human-horse encounters / Celia Deane-Drummond -- Culture of sacrifice : another meditation on domestication in the 21st-century-US anthropocene / Laura Hobgood -- Becoming human within the ecological community : encountering life on the farm with Thomas Berry and Edward Schillebeeckx / Abigail Lofte -- Doing theology with snakes : face-to-face with the wholly other / Kimberly Carfore -- Living, local, wild waters : into baptismal reality / Lisa E. Dahill -- The god(s) of November / Nathan Kowalsky -- Ecological transformation through attentiveness and intimacy / Cristina Vanin -- Encountering earth from a scientifically informed theological perspective / Jame Schaefer -- The Lord God bird : avian divinity, neo-animism, and the renewal of Christianity at the end of the world / Mark I. Wallace -- The human quest to live in a cosmos / Heather Eaton. |
| Abstract | One day, Matthew Eaton was walking through an impromptu animal shelter display at his local pet store when suddenly an eight-month-old kitten dug his claws into Eaton's flesh. Eaton recognized that the ""eyes of this cat and the curve of his claw"" compelled a response analogous to those found in the writings of Buber, Levinas, and Derrida. And not just Eaton but a whole community of theologians have found themselves in an encounter with particular places and animals that demands rich theological reflection. Eaton enlisted fellow EDs Harvie and Bechtel to collect the essays in this volume, in. |
| Source of description | Print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Bechtel, Trevor. Encountering Earth : Thinking Theologically With a More-Than-Human World. Eugene : Wipf and Stock Publishers, ©2018 9781498297844 |
| Issued in other form | Print version: 1498297862 9781498297868 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9781498297851 |
| ISBN | 1498297854 |
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