The Christian Future and the Fate of Earth

The Christian Future and the Fate of Earth
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Publisher : Orbis Books
Total Pages : 161
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ISBN-10 : 9781570759178
ISBN-13 : 1570759170
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Synopsis The Christian Future and the Fate of Earth by : Thomas Berry

This title collects Berry's signature views on the interconnectedness of both Earth's future and the Christian future. He ponders why Christians have been late in coming to the issue of the environment.

The Sacred Universe

The Sacred Universe
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Publisher : Columbia University Press
Total Pages : 208
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ISBN-10 : 0231149522
ISBN-13 : 9780231149525
Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Synopsis The Sacred Universe by : Thomas Berry

A leading scholar, cultural historian, and Catholic priest who spent more than fifty years writing about our engagement with the Earth, Thomas Berry possessed prophetic insight into the rampant destruction of ecosystems and the extinction of species. In this book he makes a persuasive case for an interreligious dialogue that can better confront the environmental problems of the twenty-first century. These erudite and keenly sympathetic essays represent Berry's best work, covering such issues as human beings' modern alienation from nature and the possibilities of future, regenerative forms of religious experience. Asking that we create a new story of the universe and the emergence of the Earth within it, Berry resituates the human spirit within a sacred totality.

The Late Great Planet Earth

The Late Great Planet Earth
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Publisher : Zondervan
Total Pages : 170
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ISBN-10 : 9780310531067
ISBN-13 : 0310531063
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Synopsis The Late Great Planet Earth by : Hal Lindsey

The impact of The Late Great Planet Earth cannot be overstated. The New York Times called it the "no. 1 non-fiction bestseller of the decade." For Christians and non-Christians of the 1970s, Hal Lindsey's blockbuster served as a wake-up call on events soon to come and events already unfolding -- all leading up to the greatest event of all: the return of Jesus Christ. The years since have confirmed Lindsey's insights into what biblical prophecy says about the times we live in. Whether you're a church-going believer or someone who wouldn't darken the door of a Christian institution, the Bible has much to tell you about the imminent future of this planet. In the midst of an out-of-control generation, it reveals a grand design that's unfolding exactly according to plan. The rebirth of Israel. The threat of war in the Middle East. An increase in natural catastrophes. The revival of Satanism and witchcraft. These and other signs, foreseen by prophets from Moses to Jesus, portend the coming of an antichrist . . . of a war which will bring humanity to the brink of destruction . . . and of incredible deliverance for a desperate, dying planet.

For the Beauty of the Earth

For the Beauty of the Earth
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Publisher : Baker Academic
Total Pages : 256
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ISBN-10 : 9780801036958
ISBN-13 : 080103695X
Rating : 4/5 (58 Downloads)

Synopsis For the Beauty of the Earth by : Steven Bouma-Prediger

This substantially revised and updated edition provides the most thorough evangelical treatment available on a theology of creation care.

The Future Earth

The Future Earth
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Publisher : HarperCollins
Total Pages : 226
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ISBN-10 : 9780062883186
ISBN-13 : 0062883186
Rating : 4/5 (86 Downloads)

Synopsis The Future Earth by : Eric Holthaus

The first hopeful book about climate change, The Future Earth shows readers how to reverse the short- and long-term effects of climate change over the next three decades. The basics of climate science are easy. We know it is entirely human-caused. Which means its solutions will be similarly human-led. In The Future Earth, leading climate change advocate and weather-related journalist Eric Holthaus (“the Rebel Nerd of Meteorology”—Rolling Stone) offers a radical vision of our future, specifically how to reverse the short- and long-term effects of climate change over the next three decades. Anchored by world-class reporting, interviews with futurists, climatologists, biologists, economists, and climate change activists, it shows what the world could look like if we implemented radical solutions on the scale of the crises we face. What could happen if we reduced carbon emissions by 50 percent in the next decade? What could living in a city look like in 2030? How could the world operate in 2040, if the proposed Green New Deal created a 100 percent net carbon-free economy in the United States? This is the book for anyone who feels overwhelmed by the current state of our environment. Hopeful and prophetic, The Future Earth invites us to imagine how we can reverse the effects of climate change in our own lifetime and encourages us to enter a deeper relationship with the earth as conscientious stewards and to re-affirm our commitment to one another in our shared humanity.

Abundant Earth

Abundant Earth
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 316
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ISBN-10 : 9780226596808
ISBN-13 : 022659680X
Rating : 4/5 (08 Downloads)

Synopsis Abundant Earth by : Eileen Crist

In Abundant Earth, Eileen Crist not only documents the rising tide of biodiversity loss, but also lays out the drivers of this wholesale destruction and how we can push past them. Looking beyond the familiar litany of causes—a large and growing human population, rising livestock numbers, expanding economies and international trade, and spreading infrastructures and incursions upon wildlands—she asks the key question: if we know human expansionism is to blame for this ecological crisis, why are we not taking the needed steps to halt our expansionism? Crist argues that to do so would require a two-pronged approach. Scaling down calls upon us to lower the global human population while working within a human-rights framework, to deindustrialize food production, and to localize economies and contract global trade. Pulling back calls upon us to free, restore, reconnect, and rewild vast terrestrial and marine ecosystems. However, the pervasive worldview of human supremacy—the conviction that humans are superior to all other life-forms and entitled to use these life-forms and their habitats—normalizes and promotes humanity’s ongoing expansion, undermining our ability to enact these linked strategies and preempt the mounting suffering and dislocation of both humans and nonhumans. Abundant Earth urges us to confront the reality that humanity will not advance by entrenching its domination over the biosphere. On the contrary, we will stagnate in the identity of nature-colonizer and decline into conflict as we vie for natural resources. Instead, we must chart another course, choosing to live in fellowship within the vibrant ecologies of our wild and domestic cohorts, and enfolding human inhabitation within the rich expanse of a biodiverse, living planet.

So What’S Next

So What’S Next
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Publisher : WestBow Press
Total Pages : 173
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ISBN-10 : 9781490866215
ISBN-13 : 1490866213
Rating : 4/5 (15 Downloads)

Synopsis So What’S Next by : Hugh Bryant

The future of the church, the future of Israel, the future of man in general, and the future of planet Earth are all chronicled in the book of Revelation. What an awesome story the resurrected Jesus has given us to end Gods Holy Book, the Bible. This book on Revelation is meant to be a study guide, a handbook of information, or a digest of the amazing things that are about to take place on earth. In part, it presents the glorious future God is preparing for His children. Read it with prayer and an open mind. Let the great teacher, the Holy Spirit, witness to the truth or error of those things expressed. As you read this book, if you come across a statement or passage you cant swallow, lay it aside. Pray about it. Ask the Holy Spirit about it. If He doesnt witness to the truth of the statement, then reject it; but dont reject the whole book. There may be other truths that will bless and enrich your life.

Apocalyptic Ecology

Apocalyptic Ecology
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Publisher : Liturgical Press
Total Pages : 192
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ISBN-10 : 9780814687826
ISBN-13 : 0814687822
Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Synopsis Apocalyptic Ecology by : Micah D. Kiel

The author of the book of Revelation struggled, as we do today, to live out a Christian faith in the context of an empire that trampled and destroyed the earth and its creatures. In this book, Micah D. Kiel will look at how and why Revelation was written, along with how it has been interpreted across the centuries, to come to an understanding of its potential contribution to a modern environmental ethic. While the book of Revelation is replete with images of destruction of the earth, Kiel shows readers, through Revelation's ancient context, a message of hope that calls for the care of and respect for the environment.

All Things New

All Things New
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Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Total Pages : 239
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ISBN-10 : 9780718038007
ISBN-13 : 0718038002
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Synopsis All Things New by : John Eldredge

New York Times bestselling author John Eldredge offers readers a breathtaking look into God’s promise for a new heaven and a new earth. This revolutionary book about our future is based on the simple idea that, according to the Bible, heaven is not our eternal home--the New Earth is. As Jesus says in the gospel of Matthew, the next chapter of our story begins with "the renewal of all things," by which he means the earth we love in all its beauty, our own selves, and the things that make for a rich life: music, art, food, laughter and all that we hold dear. Everything shall be renewed "when the world is made new." More than anything else, how you envision your future shapes your current experience. If you knew that God was going to restore your life and everything you love any day; if you believed a great and glorious goodness was coming to you--not in a vague heaven but right here on this earth--you would have a hope to see you through anything, an anchor for your soul, "an unbreakable spiritual lifeline, reaching past all appearances right to the very presence of God" (Hebrews 6:19). Most Christians (most people for that matter) fail to look forward to their future because their view of heaven is vague, religious, and frankly boring. Hope begins when we understand that for the believer nothing is lost. Heaven is not a life in the clouds; it is not endless harp-strumming or worship-singing. Rather, the life we long for, the paradise Adam and Eve knew, is precisely the life that is coming to us. And that life is coming soon.