Ecotheology in the Humanities (eBook)

Melissa Brotton is assistant professor of English and communications at La Sierra University.

Foreword - John Cobb Jr.Introduction - "Heaven and Nature Sing": Introduction - Melissa BrottonSection I: Creation Care and the SabbathChapter 1 - Friends of the Creator: A Theological Foundation for Earth-keeping Ethics - Ginger HarwoodChapter 2 - A Biblical Land Ethic? A Response to Aldo Leopold - Ellen BernsteinChapter 3 - Sanctification as Impetus for Creation Care in Adventism - Young-Chun KimSection II: Sacramental ApproachesChapter 4 - Ecotheology and Enchantment: How Wendell Berry Helps Re-vision the World - Doug SikkemaChapter 5 - Salmon Theology and Spokane Falls: Catholicism and Restorative Justice in Sherman Alexie’s Poetry - Chad WriglesworthSection III: Classical and Medieval Cosmologies and MusicChapter 6 - "All Nature Sings and Round Me Rings the Music of the Spheres": Christianity and the Transmission of a Cosmic Ecomusicology - David KendallChapter 7 - Stewards of Arda: Creation and Sustenance in J.R.R. Tolkien's Legendarium - Samuel McBrideSection IV: Ecotheodicy and Ecojustice Chapter 8 - With Heads Craning Forward: The Eschaton and the Nonhuman in Romans 8 - Mick PopeChapter 9 - Aronofsky's Noah: An Invitation for Ecotheology - Ron JolliffeChapter 10 - "Not a Tame Lion": Animal Compassion and Ecotheology of Human Imagination in Four Anglican Thinkers - John GattaChapter 11 - "Lost Angel in the Earth": Ecotheodicy in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "A Drama of Exile" - Melissa BrottonAfterword - Robert R. Gottfried