We live in an age of vast and rapid destruction of habitats and species. Yet Christianity holds great potential for healing this situation. Indeed, the Bible and Christian tradition are a treasure trove of rich images and stories about God as an "earthen" being who sustains the natural world with compassion and thereby models for humankind environmentally healthy ways of being. Mark Wallace's stimulating book retrieves a central but often neglected biblical theme - the idea of God as carnal Spirit who indwells all things - as the basis for constructing a "green spirituality" responsive to the environmental needs of our time. In the biblical tradition, he writes, God as Spirit is an ecological presence that shows itself to us daily by living in and through the earth. One message of Christianity, therefore, is celebration of the bodily, material world - ancient redwoods, vernal springs, broad-winged hawks, everyday pigweed - as the place that God indwells and cares for in order to maintain the well-being of our common planetary home. Alongside his green reading of the Bible and tradition, Wallace employs the resources of deep ecology, Neopagan spirituality, and the environmental justice movement to rethink Christianity as an earth-based, body-loving religion. He also analyzes color images reproduced in the book. Wallace's bold yet careful work reawakens our sense of the sacrality of the earth and the life that the trinitarian God creates there. It also grounds the impulses of New Age spirituality in a profoundly biblical notion of God's being and activity.
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Mark I. Wallace is Associate Professor of Religion at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. Among his works are Fragments of the Spirit: Nature, Violence, and the Renewal of Creation (1996) and Figuring the Sacred (editor; Fortress Press, 1995)
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TODAY THE SINGING RIVER is an endangered watershed. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
green spirituality, green theology, rst glance, crucifi xion, wilderness recovery, rst place, refl ection, earth crisis, earth community, planet home, defi ned, deep ecology, cardinal elements Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Singing River, Finding God, Crum Woods, Crum Creek, Earth First, Holy Spirit, Swarthmore College, The World Is Alive, Spirit Bird, Spirit of God, The Mother Bird God, Bernard Buffet, Delaware County, God Is Green, Wildlands Project, Earth Spirit, John the Baptist, Costa Rica, Council of All Beings, Dave Foreman, North America, Truffula Trees, The Baptism of Christ, Vatican Museums, American Ref-Fuel New!
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