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" Ecology and theology in the ancient world : "
edited by Ailsa Hunt and Hilary Marlow.
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BL
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844631
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Ecology and theology in the ancient world : : cross-disciplinary perspectives /\ edited by Ailsa Hunt and Hilary Marlow.
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London ;New York :: Bloomsbury Academic,, 2019.
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, ©2019
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Bloomsbury classical studies monographs
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xii, 200 pages ;; 24 cm.
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1350004049
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: 9781350004047
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9781350004054
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9781350004061
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Ancient ideas of politics : mediating between ecology and theology / Melissa Lane -- The ecology of the Sibylline Oracles / Helen Van Noorden -- Self-sufficiency as a divine attribute in Greek philosophy / David Sedley -- A lighter shade of green : Stoic gods and environmental virtue ethics / Christoph Jedan -- Cosmic beauty in Stoicism : a foundation for an environmental ethic as love of the other? / Jula Wildberger -- Some ancient philosophical and religious roots of modern environmentalism / Robin Attfield -- Creatures in creation : human perceptions of the sea in the Hebrew Bible in ecological perspective / Rebecca Watson -- Reconsidering the chthonic in Aeschylus' Oresteia : Erinyes, the Earth's resources and the cosmic order / Emmanuela Bakola -- The anguish of the earth : ecology and warfare in the First World War and the Bible / Hilary Marlow -- Pagan animism : a modern myth for a green age / Ailsa Hunt.
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This multi-disciplinary volume brings together the voices of biblical scholars, classicists, philosophers, theologians and political theorists to explore how ecology and theology intersected in ancient thinking, both pagan, Jewish and Christian. Ecological awareness is by no means purely a modern phenomenon. Of course, melting icecaps and plastic bag charges were of no concern in antiquity: frequently what made examining your relationship with the natural world urgent was the light this shed on human relationships with the divine. For, in the ancient world, to think about ecology was also to think about theology. This ancient eco-theological thinking - whilst in many ways worlds apart from our own environmental concerns - has also had a surprisingly rich impact on modern responses to our ecological crisis. As such, the voices gathered in this volume also reflect on whether and how these ancient ideas could inform modern responses to our environment and its pressing challenges. Through multi-disciplinary conversation this volume offers a new and dynamic exploration of the intersection of ecology and theology in ancient thinking, and its living legacy.
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Ecology-- Religious aspects.
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Ecotheology.
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Antike
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Ecology-- Religious aspects.
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Ecotheology.
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Ökologie
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Religion
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Theologie
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201/.77093
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BL65.E36E365 2019
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Hunt, Ailsa
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Marlow, Hilary
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