A Christian Guide to Environmental Issues
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Environmental sustainability is a major issue for us all. In this extensively updated edition, Martin and Margot Hodson consider eight of the key current environmental problems, giving the biblical basis for looking after the environment and helping to integrate environmental thinking into the reader’s understanding of Christian faith. This accessible guide includes ethical reflections, Bible studies focusing on a different biblical doctrine for each chapter, and eco-tips to enable practical response. Among the issues covered are climate change, food, biodiversity, and population, together with the relationship between environmental problems and issues relating to world development.
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- Considers eight of the key current environmental problems
- Provides biblical basis for looking after the environment
- Seeks to integrate environmental thinking into the reader’s understanding of Christian faith
- Discovering God’s Earth
- Biodiversity - Biblical reflection: How much is nature worth?
- Climate change - Biblical reflection: God’s covenant with people and creation
- Water - Biblical reflection: Water and salvation
- Human population and consumption - Biblical reflection: God’s sovereignty and human responsibility
- Energy - Biblical reflection: Sabbath and sustainability
- Soil - Biblical reflection: Exile and return
- Food - Biblical reflection: Incarnation
- Environment and sustainable development - Biblical reflection: Resurrection
- A covenant of hope - Biblical reflection: Grace and hope for our world
Martin and Margot Hodson’s deep commitment to the critical issues that their timely book addresses shines through each chapter.
--Peter Harris, Founder of A Rocha
This book looks straight in the eye of the most serious set of environmental challenges humanity faces. Drawing together in accessible ways scientific evidence, biblical reflection and practical ideas, it will provoke you to better think, act and pray for the renewal of creation.
--Rt Revd Graham Usher, Bishop of Norwich
- Title: A Christian Guide to Environmental Issues
- Authors: Martin J. Hodson, Margot R. Hodson
- Publisher: Bible Reading Fellowship
- Print Publication Date: 2021
- Pages: 224
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- ISBNs: 9781800390058, 180039005X
- Resource ID: LLS:CHRSTNGDNVRNSSS
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-10-03T20:30:47Z