Poverty and Ecology at the Crossroads: Towards an Ecological Theology of Liberation in the Philippine Context
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword by Jacques Haers, SJ -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Completing our Liberative Turns -- Specific Aims and Sc ope of the Study -- An Overview of the Book -- Part One- The Glocal Context of Human and Ecological Oppressions -- Chapter 1- Colonial Oppressions and Poverty in the Philippines -- A Portrait of Precolonial Philippines -- A Narrative of an Overly Colonized Country -- The Contemporary Oppressions of Indigenous Peoples in Mindanao -- Chapter 2- The Glocal Context of Poverty and Ecological Crisis -- The Colonization of Our Natural Resources -- The Global Phenomenon of Poverty and the Ecological Crisis -- Chapter 3- A Diagnosis of the Roots of the Oppressive Relationship with Nature -- The Anthropocentric Perspective of Western Christianity -- The Anthropocentric Perspective of Modernity -- The Unsustainable Modern Socioeconomic Ideologies -- Chapter 4- An Exploration of Ecological Perspectives -- The Context of the Emergence of the Science of Ecology -- The New Cosmology Ecology -- The Superorganism Ecology -- The Ecosystem Ecology -- Some Creative Appropriations of Ecological Perspectives -- Part Two- Poverty and the Ecological Crisis: Challenges to Magisterium and Theologians -- Chapter 5- The Liberation Theologies and the Magisterium -- Some Seeds of the Preferential Option for the Poor in Vatican II -- The Magisterium's Bias for the Top-Down Preferential Option for the Poor -- The Magisterium's Commitment to Integral Liberation -- The Changing Contexts of the Latin American Liberation Theology -- Chapter 6- The Catholic Social Teaching on Ecology -- An Overview of the Catholic Social Teaching on Ecology -- The CST on How Human Beings should Relate with Nature -- The Ecological Crisis as a Moral Issue -- A Critical Assessment of the CST's Ecological Perspective