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A Political Theology of Climate Change

  • Paperback
  • 335 pages
  • Publisher: Eerdmans Publishing Company
  • 15.6 x 22.8 x 2.4 cm

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For those interested in theology and climate issues

Challenges individual-focused climate change narratives

You will gain insights into nations' responsibilities

This book explores the role of nations in addressing climate change through a theological lens.

Much current commentary on climate change, both secular and theological, focuses on the duties of individual citizens to reduce their consumption of fossil fuels. In "A Political Theology of Climate Change," however, Michael Northcott discusses "nations" as key agents in the climate crisis.Against the anti-national trend of contemporary political theology, Northcott renarrates the origins of the nations in the divine ordering of history. In dialogue with Giambattista Vico, Carl Schmitt, Alasdair MacIntyre, and other writers, he argues that nations have legal and "moral responsibilities to rule over limited terrains and to guard a just and fair distribution of the fruits of the earth within the ecological limits of those terrains.As part of his study, Northcott brilliantly reveals how the prevalent nature-culture divide in Western culture, including its notion of nature as "private property," has contributed to the global ecological crisis. While addressing real difficulties and global controversies surrounding climate change, Northcott presents substantial and persuasive fare in his "Political Theology of Climate Change."
A Political Theology of Climate Change and Place, Ecology and the Sacred
Place, Ecology and the SacredA Political Theology of Climate Change

  • Title

    A Political Theology of Climate Change

  • Author

    Michael S Northcott

  • Book Format

    Paperback / softback

  • Publisher

    Eerdmans Publishing Company

  • Published

    November 2013

  • Weight

    495g

  • Page Count

    335

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 22.8 x 2.4 cm

  • ISBN

    9780802870988

  • ISBN-10

    0802870988

  • Eden Code

    4244105

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