For several years Cross Currents has been covering the conversation taking place within various religious communities as people rethink their relationships with the environment. A whole new movement has emerged, connecting ecology with theology: ecotheology. Our Summer 1994 issue featured a series of articles tracing this conversation within Christian, Jewish, Muslim and Buddhist traditions. Meanwhile, outside the bounds of organized religion, people are reawakening to nature as a sacred sphere; a rediscovery of Native American spirituality, the Gaia Hypothesis, and the Ecological Spirituality of Matthew Fox and Wendell Berry, all are part of this phenomenon. Here, for the first time, we combine six articles from that issue with six more that we've published in recent years to offer an overview of an emergent movement. Articles Trees, Forestry, and the Responsiveness of Creation The Greening of Buddhist Practice The Gaia Hypothesis: Implications For a Christian
Political Theology of the Environment Islam and Ecology Ethics and Trauma: Levinas, Feminism, and
Deep Ecology Earth Vigil: Darwin, Death and Hope (From other issues.)
Eucharistic Ecology and Ecological Spirituality
Whose Earth Is It Anyway? Mountains Made Alive: Native American
Relationships With Sacred Land On The Wings of a Blue Heron
Re-conceiving God and Humanity in Light of Global Requiem: The Apocalyptic Moment in Religion, Science,
and Art The Ecotheology of Annie Dillard: A Study in
Ambivalence Green Lap, Brown Embrace, Blue Body: The
Ecospirituality of Alice Walker The Green Face of God: Christianity in an Age of Ecocide And the Earth Is Filled with the Breath of Life |