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Jesus the wisdom of God : an ecological theology /

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Ecology and justice seriesPublication details: Marynoll : New York Orbis c1995Description: xi, 208pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 1570750025
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 232 EDW
Contents:
Introduction: ecology and theology. Movements of hope The Earth's rain forests Outline for a theological response. I. Jesus of Nazareth as the wisdom of God: wisdom christology as the basis for ecological theology. 1. The wisdom of God in biblical tradition. The wisdom woman: Job; Proverbs; Sirach; the wisdom of Solomon; the identity of wisdom woman Jesus as divine wisdom in the Christian scriptures: the hymns of the Christian scriptures; Jesus our wisdom, First Corinthians; wisdom's prophet and wisdom personified, Luke and Matthew; Jesus as wisdom incarnate, the Gospel of John. 2. Jesus the wisdom of God. The wisdom of Jesus, the preaching and practice of radical compassion: wisdom's teacher, banquet, and praxis; Jesus' relationship to God "Wisdom has built herself a home": Jesus identified with the wisdom of God; retrieving wisdom christology Directions for a wisdom christology: pre-existence; the human person and the divine person; a feminist christology; a christology of praxis; Jesus the wisdom of God and other religious traditions; life in other solar systems. 3. Jesus: wisdom and ecology. Unity of creation and incarnation in wisdom christology The love that "moves the stars": 1 Chorinthians 1: God's foolishness; the love that "moves the stars" The transformation of the universe in Jesus the wisdom of God, Colossians 1:15-20: the creation of all things in Christ; transformation of all things iin Christ; christology, ecology, and cosmology. II. The trinitarian God and creation: the trinitarian God of mutual love and fecundity as the center of an ecological theology. 4. The God of mutual love and ecstatic fecundity. The trinity as mutual love, Richard of St. Victor: friendship and mutual love in God; the unity in God; the generousity of mutual love demands more than two The supreme mutuality of trinitarian love The universe as the self-expression of God, Bonaventure: God as dynamic ecstatic, and fecund; the divine exemplar; creation as God's self-expression. 5. An ecological theology of the trinity: some theses. 6. Human beings and other creatures. From individualism to persons-in-mutual-relationship Human participation in the community of creatures: the sphere of bodiliness; made from stardust; two principles for a theological anthropology Salvation and the universe: science and theology on the future of the universe; the salvation of the universe. 7. Ecological praxis. The intrisic value of all creatures Human value Reverence for life The biotic community A criterion for ethical discernment Ecological sustainability Companions with other creatures in an earth community
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Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction: ecology and theology. Movements of hope
The Earth's rain forests
Outline for a theological response. I. Jesus of Nazareth as the wisdom of God: wisdom christology as the basis for ecological theology. 1. The wisdom of God in biblical tradition. The wisdom woman: Job; Proverbs; Sirach; the wisdom of Solomon; the identity of wisdom woman
Jesus as divine wisdom in the Christian scriptures: the hymns of the Christian scriptures; Jesus our wisdom, First Corinthians; wisdom's prophet and wisdom personified, Luke and Matthew; Jesus as wisdom incarnate, the Gospel of John. 2. Jesus the wisdom of God. The wisdom of Jesus, the preaching and practice of radical compassion: wisdom's teacher, banquet, and praxis; Jesus' relationship to God
"Wisdom has built herself a home": Jesus identified with the wisdom of God; retrieving wisdom christology Directions for a wisdom christology: pre-existence; the human person and the divine person; a feminist christology; a christology of praxis; Jesus the wisdom of God and other religious traditions; life in other solar systems. 3. Jesus: wisdom and ecology. Unity of creation and incarnation in wisdom christology
The love that "moves the stars": 1 Chorinthians 1: God's foolishness; the love that "moves the stars"
The transformation of the universe in Jesus the wisdom of God, Colossians 1:15-20: the creation of all things in Christ; transformation of all things iin Christ; christology, ecology, and cosmology. II. The trinitarian God and creation: the trinitarian God of mutual love and fecundity as the center of an ecological theology. 4. The God of mutual love and ecstatic fecundity. The trinity as mutual love, Richard of St. Victor: friendship and mutual love in God; the unity in God; the generousity of mutual love demands more than two The supreme mutuality of trinitarian love
The universe as the self-expression of God, Bonaventure: God as dynamic ecstatic, and fecund; the divine exemplar; creation as God's self-expression. 5. An ecological theology of the trinity: some theses. 6. Human beings and other creatures. From individualism to persons-in-mutual-relationship
Human participation in the community of creatures: the sphere of bodiliness; made from stardust; two principles for a theological anthropology
Salvation and the universe: science and theology on the future of the universe; the salvation of the universe. 7. Ecological praxis. The intrisic value of all creatures
Human value
Reverence for life
The biotic community
A criterion for ethical discernment
Ecological sustainability
Companions with other creatures in an earth community

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