A Political Theology of Nature: 9 (Cambridge Studies in Christian Doctrine, Series Number 9)
Cambridge University Press, 3/6/2003
EAN 9780521641654, ISBN10: 0521641659
Hardcover, 290 pages, 23.1 x 15.5 x 1.8 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
This book argues that the modern separation of humanity from nature can be traced to the displacement of the triune God. Locating the source of our current ecological crisis in this separation, Peter Scott argues that it can only be healed within theology, through a revival of a Trinitarian doctrine of creation interacting with political philosophies of ecology. Drawing insights from deep ecology, ecofeminism, and social and socialist ecologies, Scott proposes a common realm of God, nature and humanity. Both Trinitarian and political, the theology of this common realm is worked out by reference to Christ and Spirit. Christ's resurrection is presented as the liberation and renewal of ecological relations in nature and society, the movement of the Holy Spirit is understood as the renewal of fellowship between humanity and nature through ecological democracy, and the Eucharist is proposed as the principal political resource Christianity offers for an ecological age.
Part I. God, Nature and Modernity
1. Nature in Christian theology
politics, context and strategies
2. The common realm of God, nature and humanity
Part II. The Politics of Nature
3. The return of nature
deep ecology
4. The re/production of nature
ecofeminism
5. The dialectical emergence of nature and society
social ecology
6. The production of nature
socialist ecology
Part III. The Triune God and Un/natural Humanity
7. Common nature
the worldly Christ
8. Un/natural fellowship
life in the Spirit
9. God-body
Un/natural relations, un/natural community in Jesus Christ.