Preaching on the environment
Date
2016-06-02
Authors
Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, speaker
Cheng, Yang-en, speaker
Chen, Tzu-Mei, speaker
Chen, Yu-Ping, speaker
Unidentified speaker
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Abstract
Rolston lecture at Taiwan Theological Seminary, Taipei, June 2, 2016. Biblical faith originated with a land ethic. Within the covenant, keeping the commandments, the Hebrew people entered a promised land. Nature is the creative, generative powers on Earth. Spirit is the animating principle that raises up life from the ground. Christian citizens ought to join others shaping a public environmental ethic. Earth is promised planet, planet with promise, sacred, holy ground.
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Lecture given in English and translated in Mandarin.
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Subject
nature
Promised Land
Jesus and nature
environmental policy
planet with promise
Bible
Earth
Judaism
Christianity