A New Climate for Christology: Kenosis, Climate Change, and Befriending Nature

by Sallie McFague

Publisher:

Fortress Press

, 2021

Overview

For decades, Sallie McFague lent her voice and her theological imagination to addressing and advocating for the most important issues of our time. In doing so, she influenced an entire generation and empowered countless people in their efforts to put religion in the service of meeting human needs in difficult times.

In this final book, finished in the year before her death in 2019, McFague summarizes the work of a lifetime with a clear call to live in “such a way that all might flourish.” The way, she argues, is the “kenotic interpretation of Christianity: the odd arrangement whereby in order to gain your life, you must lose it. The way of the cross is total self-emptying so that one can receive life, real life, and then pass this life on.”

A masterful and life-giving summing-up of a theology that makes a profound difference for us, our communities, and our planet.

Key Features

• Invites to live in “such a way that all might flourish.”
• Addresses for the most important issues of our time.
• Shows the odd arrangement whereby in order to gain your life.>

Product Details

• Title: A New Climate for Christology: Kenosis, Climate Change, and Befriending Nature
• Author: Sallie McFague
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Print Publication Date: 2021
• Logos Release Date: 2021
• Pages: 125
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subjects: Christology; Climatic changes › Religious aspects--Christianity; Ecotheology; Incarnation; Jesus Christ › Person and offices; Jesus Christ
• ISBNs: 9781506478746, 9781506478739, 1506478735, 1506478743
• Resource ID: LLS:9781506478746
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-09-19T21:43:58Z

About Sallie McFague

Sallie McFague was Carpenter Professor of Theology at Vanderbilt Divinity School, where she taught for 30 years. She is now distinguished theologian in residence at the Vancouver School of Theology in Vancouver, British Columbia. Among her many influential works are Life Abundant: Rethinking Theology and Economy for a Planet in Peril, The Body of God: An Ecological Theology, Models of God: Theology for an Ecological, Nuclear Age, which received the American Academy of Religion’s Award for Excellence; and Metaphorical Theology: Models of God in Religious Language. Many of her works are collected in Sally McFague: Collected Readings.