For our common home : process-relational responses to Laudato Si' / John B. Cobb, Jr, Ignaio Castuera, editors ; with an introduction by Bill McKibben.
Second editor's first name should read "Ignacio." Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Introduction : on Care for our common home / Bill McKibben -- pt. one : Commentaries. A 21st century manifesto for Earth democracy / Vandana Shiva -- Pope Francis' encyclical on care for creation / Rosemary Radford Ruether -- Thoughts on Pope Francis' Laudato si' / Herman Daly -- The postmodern pope / David Ray Griffin -- A liberal, Catholic response / Daniel A. Dombrowski -- The pope's encyclical from a Quaker perspective / Anthony Manuousos -- Stewardship and the roots of the ecological crisis / Brian Henning -- An ecological pope challenges the Anthropocene Epoch / Holmes Rolston III -- Pope Francis' ecological conversion / Herman F. Greene -- A bright hope for the depressed globe / Andrew Sung Park -- The Jesuit pope / Ignacio Castuera -- The game-changer in the Vatican / Joseph Prabhu -- Falling in love with the Earth : Francis' faithful ecology / Jacob J. Erickson -- That we may sow beauty / Sandra Lubarsky -- pt. two : Reception. A song-inspired narrative of resistance / David Carlson -- A change in the climate of climate change? / Jim Conn -- Encountering Francis : barriers to action / Carolyn T. Brown -- A letter to His Holiness Pope Francis / Thandeka -- The purposive orientation / Cliff Cobb -- Listening to the impoverished / David Ongombe -- An aesthetic revolution of love / Sheri D. Kling -- Appreciation and questions / Roger S. Gottlieb -- Dialogue between paradigms (anthropocentric / biocentric / technocratic / ecospiritual) / John Quiring -- Care for our common home and the degrowth movement : a message of radical transformation / Barbara Muraca -- Changing my mind on technological education / Lília Dias Marianno -- Climate change : the devil vs. the Pope for the fate of the planet / Andy Shrader -- Integral ecology and China / Ronald P. Phipps -- Every creature is sister and brother / Bob Hurd -- pt. three: What now? Encycling : one feminist theological response / Catherine Keller -- Climate change brings moral change / Mary Evelyn Tucker -- Achieving Pope Francis' vision : being a part of the transformation / Tina Clarke -- Integral ecology, climate justice, and the new UN development agenda / Rick Clugson & Karenna Gore -- Searching for a second enlightenment / Rick Smyre -- Good news from the global footprint network -- and bad news from Fukushima / Yoshihiko Wada -- A political and spiritual strategy to save the life support system of planet earth / Rabbi Michael Lerner -- Searching for transcendence at the hinge of history in the context of Laudato si' / Stuart Kauffman, Caryn Devins, Roger Koppl & Teppo Felin -- pt. four : Elements of an integral ecology. Pancho populist's encyclical / David Lewit -- Positive solutions from a plasma physicist / Timothy E. Eastman -- Principles of regenerative agriculture for ecological civilizations / David Freudenberger and C. Dean Freudenberger -- On educational reform / Marcus Ford -- Management and the care for our common home / Mark Dibben -- Management in the context of integral ecology / Vijay Sathe -- Laudato si, the idea of property, and the rule of law / Howard J. Vogel -- A revolutionary pope calls for rethinking the outdated criteria that rule the world / Ellen Brown -- Building a civilization of love on the foundations of an ecological civilzation / Mark Anielski -- Foundations for an eco-ecclesiology / Rebecca Ann Parker -- pt. five : Multi-faith, multi-cultural responses. Indigenous wisdom and Pope Francis' encyclical letter / Chris Daniels -- Reflections on Laudato si' and the debt to ecology, culture, and society, Toni M. Bond Leonard -- Hope lies in change / Zhihe Wang & Meijun Fran -- Constructing LOHO communities with Confucian wisdom / Liao Ziaoyi (Sheri Liao) -- A Hindi response / Rita D. Sherma -- Catholic and Buddhist perspectives / Lourdes Argüelles & Anne Rivero -- Walk not exultantly upon the earth : an Islamic response / Joseph E.B. Lumbard -- Back from quantity to quality, from appearance to reality? / Denys Zhadiaiev -- An interreligious response : are we at the tipping point? / William Lesher -- pt. six: Philosophy. At the beside of mother Earth / Bonnie Tarwater -- Some reflections on Laudato si' / Vern Visick -- Local change agents and general perspective / Franz Riffert -- Comments on Laudato si' / Joseph A. Bracken -- An appeal to build up an ecological civilization / Vesselin Petrov -- Ecological conversion : the plea for sister Earth / Maria-Teresa Teixeira -- pt. seven : The call forward. "Go thou and do likewise" / Philip Clayton.
Summary:
"In his papal letter Laudate si' Pope Francis invited a worldwide dialogue on the interrelated issues of ecology, economy, and equity. This collection of essays, representing multiple fields and faiths, answers that call and boldly aims to move the conversation forward."--Back cover.
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