Kelowna, BC 11/1/2007 5:00:00 AM
“Greening Christianity” New Book Integrates Ecology into Faith
In March 2005, the United Nations released its Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. Stating that 2/3 of the world’s ecosystems are seriously degraded - climate change is not something that might happen – it’s already happening.
Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth has been instrumental in bringing the ecological crisis to the forefront in the minds of most people. The documentary film is a very powerful medium for shifting consciousness.
As leaders and consumers wake-up and make changes to deal with the global climate change, more and more industries are also being asked to change to help reduce the effects of the coming climate crisis. The “greening” of various organizations is definitely a trend.
One institution that hasn’t yet been “greened” in any major way is the Christian Church. Some feel the Christian Church is desperately in need of the addition of some kind of environmental-awareness. A new kind of Christian consciousness could help the faithful to see the impact that their choices have on the natural world. This new point of view would enable followers to make the kind of changes needed to reduce the effects of the current environmental crisis. One man has written the first book of its’ kind to help Christians integrate ecology into their concept of God.
In Darwin, Divinity, and the Dance of the Cosmos: An Ecological Christianity (CopperHouse 2007) Bruce Sanguin draws upon the work of mathematical physicist and cosmologist Brian Swimme, as well as cultural historian Thomas Berry. Sanguin takes the next step of integrating evolution and the new physics with faith. The latest scientific understandings of the nature of the universe are woven together with biblical narratives, the teachings of Jesus, and a long suppressed wisdom tradition grounded in the feminine divine.
The end result is a truly evolutionary Christian theology – a feat few theologians have even attempted. This new Christian way provides a vision to lead us out of the global ecological problems we face.
Bruce Sanguin is an evocative, Earth-conscious minister at Canadian Memorial Church and Centre for Peace in Vancouver, British Columbia. He has been a United Church minister for 18 years; before that he was a practicing therapist. Bruce has a passion for reconciling science and religion. He is the author of Summoning the Whirlwind: Unconventional Sermons for a Relevant Christian Faith (CopperHouse 2006).
Darwin, Divinity and the Dance of the Cosmos
An Ecological Christianity
Available April 2007
Spiritual/Ecology
ISBN 978-1-551455-45-7
$22.95 USD $27.95 CAD
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