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Notes on appropriation and reciprocity : prompts from Bonhoeffer and King's communitarian ethic / Emilie M. Townes -- King and Bonhoeffer as Protestant saints : the use and misuse of contested legacies / Stephen R. Haynes -- Bonhoeffer, King, and feminism : problems and possibilities / Rachel Muers -- Political order, political violence, and ethical limits / Jean Bethke Elshtain -- Life worthy of life : the social ecologies of Bonhoeffer and King / Larry L. Rasmussen -- Theology and the problem of racism / Josiah U. Young III -- Bonhoeffer, King, and themes in Catholic social thought / M. Shawn Copeland -- Church, world, and Christian charity / Timothy P. Jackson -- The cross and its victims : Bonhoeffer, King, and martyrdom / Craig J. Slane -- Bonhoeffer on the road to King : "Turning from the phraseological to the real" / Charles Marsh -- Interpreting pastors as activists / Richard W. Wills Sr. -- Preaching and prophetic witness / Raphael Gamaliel Warnock -- Embodying redemption : King and the engagement of social sin / Stephen G. Ray Jr. -- Culture in Bonhoeffer and King : Deweyan naturalism in action / Andre C. Willis -- Peacemaking / Glen H. Stassen -- Spiritualities of justice, peace, and freedom for the oppressed / Geffrey B. Kelly -- Overhearing resonances : Jesus and ethics in King and Bonhoeffer / Gary M. Simpson -- Reconciliation as worshiping community / Michael Battle -- Conclusion : Christian social ethics after Bonhoeffer and King / Willis Jenkins

Saving nature, saving grace -- Three practical strategies in environmental ethics -- The strategy of ecojustice -- The strategy of Christian stewardship -- The strategy of ecological spirituality -- Sanctifying biodiversity : ecojustice in Thomas Aquinas -- Environmental virtues : charity, nature, and divine friendship in Thomas -- Stewardship after the end of nature : Karl Barth's environment of Jesus Christ -- Nature redeemed : Barth's garden of reconciliation -- After Maximus : ecological spirituality and cosmic deification -- Thinking like a transfigured mountain : Sergei Bulgakov's wisdom ecology -- Conclusion: Renovating grace

Only recently have theologians begun to think and write about the ecological crisis in a focused manner. It is clear, however that people of faith must come to grips with that crisis and find a way of thinking about it in the context of their beliefs. This book offers an introduction to Christian environemntal ethics

Complex environmental problems frustrate practical reasoning and scientific research, and thereby challenge relations between ethics and ecology. Sustainability crises, in which human powers affect ecological systems in ways that jeopardize basic social values, become practical problems only as cultures create capacities to take responsibility for them. They become real problems, that is, only as cultural reform processes generate ways to confront and learn from social crises. Issues such as climate change therefore require professionals who can make challenges to environmental science and moral culture into sites for adaptive learning and social change, thereby making inchoate threats into intelligible civic problems. How to make crises into problems shapes an ongoing debate over competing strategies of practical reason. Should ethics critique the cultural worldviews and metaphysical assumptions at root of environmental crises, or should it develop practical responses to specific problems from broadly available cultural values? The question seems to force a dilemma: choosing the cosmological route lets one critique the depth of problems, but at the cost of distance from the moral imagination and political values of most citizens, while choosing the pragmatic route lets one deploy cultural values to support specific policy solutions, but at the cost of being constrained by the modest reforms those values permit.

AbstractThis paper considers how theology confronts sustainability as a global problem, and what that confrontation can contribute to the challenge of global ethics. After reviewing major models of religious engagement with global ethics, I argue for an analogical conception in which Christian social practices generate moral patterns with the capacity to meet the integrative challenge of global ethics. Theological reflection on those practices then helps sustain the discourse of sustainability as an effective working concept.

AbstractWhere some religious environmentalisms deploy traditional concepts according to the practical needs of cosmology, usul al-fiqh (jurisprudence) envisions an alternative practical strategy for Islamic environmental ethics. Jurisprudence governs religious adaptations according to guiding principles designed to conform practical reason to the ongoing discovery of divine will. This article shows how those principles can function as mechanisms for normative change, and reviews their diagnostic capacity for evaluating various uses of Islamic resources.

"The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Ecology provides the most comprehensive and authoritative overview of the field. Written by a team of leading international experts, the Handbook discusses dynamics of change within religious traditions as well as their roles in responding to global challenges such as climate change, water, conservation, food and population. It explores the interpretations of indigenous traditions regarding modern environmental problems drawing on such concepts as lifeway and indigenous knowledge. This volume uniquely intersects the field of religion and ecology with new directions within the humanities and the sciences. The sections on environmental humanities and environmental sciences explore the history and significance of other key areas and disciplines of environmental studies in which religion and ecology can be fruitfully located as a dialogue partner for environmental solutions"--

"The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Ecology provides the most comprehensive and authoritative overview of the field. Written by a team of leading international experts, the Handbook discusses dynamics of change within religious traditions as well as their roles in responding to global challenges such as climate change, water, conservation, food and population. It explores the interpretations of indigenous traditions regarding modern environmental problems drawing on such concepts as lifeway and indigenous knowledge. This volume uniquely intersects the field of religion and ecology with new directions within the humanities and the sciences. The sections on environmental humanities and environmental sciences explore the history and significance of other key areas and disciplines of environmental studies in which religion and ecology can be fruitfully located as a dialogue partner for environmental solutions"--

Using the resources of theology and ethics to bring religion into the climate engineering debate, this book considers the moral questions raised by scientists, engineers, and philosophers while adding new questions and insights to the debate. Readers new to the discussion will be introduced in an engaging and thoughtful manner, while those who already work on this issue will wrestle with it in a new way.

In response to our recent article (Higgs et al. 2018) in these pages, George Gann and his coauthors defended the Society for Ecological Restoration (SER) International Standards, clarified several points, and introduced some new perspectives. We offer this counter-response to address some of these perspectives. More than anything, our aims are in sharpening the field of restoration in a time of rapid scaling-up of interest and effort, and support further constructive dialogue going forward. Our perspective remains that there is an important distinction needed between Standards and Principles that is largely unheeded by Gann et al. (2018). We encourage SER to consider in future iterations of its senior policy document to lean on principles first, and then to issue advice on standards that meet the needs of diverse conditions and social, economic, and political realities.