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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. A Natural History of Sin -- Chapter One. Before the Flood: Gender, Embodied Sin, and Environmental Agency -- Chapter Two. After the Flood: Biblical Monogenism, Global Migrations, and the Origins of Scientific Racism -- Chapter Three. Protestant Climate Change: From Edenocene to Fallocene -- Chapter Four. The Flood and the Apocalypse: Building the Republic of Letters -- Chapter Five. Catholic Climate Change: Heritable Sin and Strategies of Toleration -- Epilogue. The Flood Subsides -- Notes -- Index

In this volume, Susan Holman looks at how the Christian tradition, ancient and modern, has contemplated the subject of poverty and encourages the reader to reflect on the social issues of injustice and need. She alternates images from late antiquity and the patristic period with stories from contemporary American life

The religion and health movement, as it has become known, has attracted its fair share of sceptics. While most root their criticism in science or secularism, the authors of 'Heal Thyself', one a theological ethicist, the other a physician instead challenge the basic precepts of the movement from the standpoint of Christian theology