By Richard Bauckham

The Bible and Christian culture have, at most sensible, provided an ambiguous observe in keeping with Earth's environmental problems. At worst, a posh, usually one-sided historical past of interpretation has left the Bible's voice silent. Aiming to bridge those gaps, Richard Bauckham mines scripture and theology, learning a company command for Christians to take care of all of God's production after which discusses the generations of theologians who've sought to stay out this biblical mandate. Going past previous testomony human dominion, Living with different Creatures consults scripture in its entirety and comprises Jesus' views on construction, novel techniques to analyzing the gospels, and a few of the main popular "ecologists" all through Christian heritage. the result's an cutting edge and enriching treatise that reminds readers of God's entire creation―and humanity's position inside of it

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G. René Dubos, ‘Franciscan Conservation versus Benedictine Stewardship,’ in Western Man (ed. Barbour), pp. W. Moncrief, ‘The Cultural Basis of Our Environmental Crisis,’ in Western Man (ed. Barbour), pp. 31–42; James Barr, ‘Man and Nature: The Ecological Controversy and the Old Testament’, BJRL 55 (1972): pp. 9–32 (these three articles can also be found in Ecology [ed. Spring], pp. 114–36, 76–90, 48–75); William Leiss, The Domination of Nature (New York: George Braziller, 1972); John Macquarrie, ‘Creation and Environment’ in Ecology (ed.

68 The Italian saint William of Montevergine (d. 69 As often, the most attractive stories are of the Celtic saints. 71 Not only the animals, but even the sea served Cuthbert, throwing up on the shore a plank of exactly the length he needed for the shelter he was constructing. His biographer Bede draws out the significance explicitly in this case: ‘it is hardly strange that the rest of creation should obey the wishes and commands of a man who dedicated himself with complete sincerity to the Lord’s service.

65. Passmore, Man’s Responsibility, p. 17. On the theme, see Glacken, Traces, chapter 3. Glacken, Traces, pp. 54, 108; Lactantius, Div. Inst. 4. Liedke, Im Bauch, pp. 65–7, following Krolzik, Umweltkrise, 77ff. (I have not been able to see this work), sees in Hugh of St Victor’s Didascalion a turning-point in the 26 Living with Other Creatures creative work of God, who brings things into being out of nothing, the work of nature, which brings hidden potentialities into actuality, and the work of human artificers, who merely put together things disjoined or disjoin what is put together.

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