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The Ecological Challenge to Biblical Studies

Author(s) -

David G. Horrell

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

theology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.12

H-Index - 7

eISSN - 2044-2696

pISSN - 0040-571X

DOI - 10.1177/0040571x0911200302

Subject(s) - interpretation (philosophy) , set (abstract data type) , biblical studies , epistemology , environmental ethics , philosophy , sociology , ecology , theology , computer science , biology , linguistics , programming language

Â© 2009 by SAGE Publications. Post-print version.The increasing prominence of environmental issues, together with the suspicion that the Bible, both through its creation stories and its eschatological expectations, may discourage a sense of Christian environmental responsibility, raise a challenge to which biblical scholars have responded in various ways. Some attempt to recover a positive ecological message from the Bible, while others read the Bible critically through the framework of a set of ecojustice principles. This essay reviews some of these contributions and argues for a theological approach to interpretation which avoids some of the weaknesses of either of these two alternatives

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