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Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2018
In this book Boff aims to develop, from the perspective of the Christian faith, a new way of speaking about the environment and a new way of living on earth. After writing about our current environmental crisis and its reasons, Boff displays the recent development in cosmology, quantum mechanics, and biology in their understanding of our relationship to the environment. I am not acquainted enough with these particular fields of knowledge to evaluate how well Boff dialogues with science, but he clearly shows his willingness to build connections between science and Christian spirituality. He also includes a fascinating account of how the Amazon region is being destroyed by financial interests and how indigenous people have a more environmental respectful culture to their homeland, the Amazon region.
The chapters dealing with theology are meaty and hard to follow if someone is not theologically well versed. Boff, however, has wonderful reflections upon the Trinity: the creation in God, the cosmic Christ and the Holy Spirit, fountain of life for the whole creation. The protestant theologian Jürgen Moltmann, among others, is with whom Boff dialogues.
Boff includes St. Francis as a prime example of someone living out a true and faithful Christian eco-spirituality.
Boff ends his work, providing the full text (as we have it) of the speech by the chief Seattle arguing in favor of ecological responsibility and the full text of the Earth Charter, written by people from several countries with the support of UNESCO as an urgent call for human beings to change their ways on how we live our lives.
Two extra points I would like to highlight: 1) Boff is critical of capitalism and socialism as systems that, in different ways, continue to exploit the poor and the environment; 2) Boff dialogs a lot with biblical texts, in some cases pointing out their ambiguous implications for the care of creation and, in other instances, pointing out their potential for human beings to convert, to call us to live a new spirituality, an eco-spirituality that lives up to God's call to care for the whole creation.
outstanding theological resource to think and live out an eco-spirituality
Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2018
I read this book while a student at Harvard Divinity School in the 90's and decided to reread the book, now in its second revised edition in Portuguese (2015). As one of the early liberation theologians, Leonardo Boff is an influential voice within the Roman Catholic Church and beyond. I write as a protestant/Lutheran Christian who now lives in Brazil.Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2018
In this book Boff aims to develop, from the perspective of the Christian faith, a new way of speaking about the environment and a new way of living on earth. After writing about our current environmental crisis and its reasons, Boff displays the recent development in cosmology, quantum mechanics, and biology in their understanding of our relationship to the environment. I am not acquainted enough with these particular fields of knowledge to evaluate how well Boff dialogues with science, but he clearly shows his willingness to build connections between science and Christian spirituality. He also includes a fascinating account of how the Amazon region is being destroyed by financial interests and how indigenous people have a more environmental respectful culture to their homeland, the Amazon region.
The chapters dealing with theology are meaty and hard to follow if someone is not theologically well versed. Boff, however, has wonderful reflections upon the Trinity: the creation in God, the cosmic Christ and the Holy Spirit, fountain of life for the whole creation. The protestant theologian Jürgen Moltmann, among others, is with whom Boff dialogues.
Boff includes St. Francis as a prime example of someone living out a true and faithful Christian eco-spirituality.
Boff ends his work, providing the full text (as we have it) of the speech by the chief Seattle arguing in favor of ecological responsibility and the full text of the Earth Charter, written by people from several countries with the support of UNESCO as an urgent call for human beings to change their ways on how we live our lives.
Two extra points I would like to highlight: 1) Boff is critical of capitalism and socialism as systems that, in different ways, continue to exploit the poor and the environment; 2) Boff dialogs a lot with biblical texts, in some cases pointing out their ambiguous implications for the care of creation and, in other instances, pointing out their potential for human beings to convert, to call us to live a new spirituality, an eco-spirituality that lives up to God's call to care for the whole creation.
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