Lake Parramatta and Hunts Creek, just a few hundred metres from North Rocks Community Church, Sydney. At first glance, the Book of Ezekiel can seem a baffling piece of literature. Ezekiel is a young priest caught up in the historic exile of around 10,000 people of Judah after a failed rebellion against the Babylonian superpower …
Reading Scripture in a Climate Emergency (Part 2)
Scripture, science, and the risk of eisegesis One difficult task facing ecological hermeneutics is constructing an intellectually responsible relationship between ancient Scripture and contemporary science. Climate modelling, atmospheric chemistry, ecology, hydrology and biodiversity research operate within bodies of knowledge that did not exist when biblical texts were written. Scripture, meanwhile, speaks through narrative, poetry, prophecy, …
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Reading Scripture in a Climate Emergency (Part 1)
On the ecological reading of Scripture Ecological hermeneutics has become an increasingly important field of biblical interpretation. The chief reason for this is that Christians now read Scripture in ecological circumstances substantially different from those known to its original authors. Climate change, biodiversity loss, industrial agriculture, pollution, changing land use and the disruption of ecological …
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