A Political Theology of Climate Change

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Synopsis
Much current commentary on climate change, both secular and theological, focuses on the duties of individual citizens to reduce their consumption of fossil fuels. In A Political Theology of Climate Change, however, Michael Northcott discusses nations as key agents in the climate crisis.Against the anti-national trend of contemporary political theology, Northcott renarrates the origins of the nations in the divine ordering of history. In dialogue with Giambattista Vico, Carl Schmitt, Alasdair MacIntyre, and other writers, he argues that nations have legal and moral responsibilities to rule over limited terrains and to guard a just and fair distribution of the fruits of the earth within the ecological limits of those terrains.As part of his study, Northcott brilliantly reveals how the prevalent nature-culture divide in Western culture, including its notion of nature as "private property," has contributed to the global ecological crisis. While addressing real difficulties and global controversies surrounding climate change, Northcott presents substantial and persuasive fare in his Political Theology of Climate Change.
Copyright:
2013

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
352 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781467439121
Related ISBNs:
9780802870988
Publisher:
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
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Copyrighted By:
Michael S. Northcott
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No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Outdoors and Nature, Religion and Spirituality, Earth Sciences, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Politics and Government
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