Climate Church, Climate World argues that climate change is the greatest moral challenge humanity has ever faced; it multiplies all forms of global social injustice: hunger, refugees, poverty, inequality, deadly viruses, war. Environmental leader Reverend Jim Antal presents a compelling case that it’s time for the church to meet this moral challenge, just as the church addressed previous moral challenges. He calls for the church to embrace a new vocation so that future generations might live in harmony with God’s creation. After describing how we have created the dangers our planet now faces, Antal urges the church to embrace a new vocation, one focused on collective salvation and an expanded understanding of the Golden Rule (Golden Rule 2.0). He suggests ways people of faith can reorient what they prize through new approaches to worship, preaching, witnessing, and other spiritual practices that honor creation and cultivate hope.
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Climate Church, Climate World argues that climate change is the greatest moral challenge humanity has ever faced. Reverend Jim Antal argues that it’s time for the church to meet this moral challenge and suggests ways people of faith can reorient what they value through new approaches to worship, preaching, and other spiritual practices.
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Introduction
1. The Situation We Find Ourselves In
2. A Loving God for a Broken World
Interlude – If We Fail To Heed Our Calling
3. The Church’s Vocation Today
4. The Marks of the Church in a Climate Crisis World
5. Discipleship – Reorienting What We Prize
6. Worship as a Pathway to Freedom
7. Prophetic Preaching: Freeing the Pulpit from Fear
8. Witnessing Together – Communal Action Can Free Us from Fear
9. Living Hope-Filled Lives in a Climate Crisis World
Epilogue
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After analyzing the history and social implications of climate change, Antal reimagines the role of church communities and their capacity to confront and resolve the problem. After each chapter throughout the book, there are discussion questions aimed at prompting readers to engage in their communities — through everything from Bible study to civil disobedience. Clearly, Antal’s purpose in writing is not simply to educate but to inspire readers’ hearts, heads and hands to “repurpose” the church, and reimagine its moral calling.
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781538110683
Publisert
2018-02-19
Utgiver
Vendor
Rowman & Littlefield
Vekt
494 gr
Høyde
237 mm
Bredde
159 mm
Dybde
23 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
248
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