
Creation and Ecology
The Political Economy of Ancient Israel and the Environmental Crisis
Ronald A. Simkins(Author)
Wipf & Stock Publishers
Published on 24. December 2020
Book
Hardback
372 pages
978-1-5326-9873-6 (ISBN)
Description
In this book Ronald A. Simkins addresses the current environmental crisis and what the Bible might contribute in response to it. The environmental crisis includes loss of biodiversity, degradation of the soil, and especially climate change. If left unchecked, these trends will bring about the collapse of human civilization. These environmental problems are interrelated and share a similar cause: the exploitation of the natural world through an economy structured by capitalist relations of production and powered by the burning of fossil fuels. Through our economic relations, we have depleted natural resources, polluted natural environments, and altered natural processes. These problems are a product of our political economy, which entails not only our politics, ideology, and religion, but primarily our economic system. Because the crisis is economic at its core, Simkins first sets the Bible within its own economic context, exploring how the biblical ideas of creation--an understanding of the human relationship to the natural world--were the product of the ancient Israelite political economy. Then Simkins places the biblical tradition in conversation with the current environmental crisis. The result is a far richer view of creation in the biblical tradition and a better understanding of what is at stake in the current environmental crisis.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Eugene
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 260 mm
Width: 183 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
894 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5326-9873-6 (9781532698736)
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Creation and Ecology
The Political Economy of Ancient Israel and the Environmental Crisis
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Ronald A. Simkins is a Professor of Theology at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. He is the author of Creator & Creation (1994) and the founding editor of the Journal of Religion & Society. He has published broadly on creation, political economy, gender, and the environment.