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The Season of Creation Part 3 By Rod Benson Norman Habel’s Earth Bible project and Australian Season of Creation teach Christians to notice dimensions of Scripture that anthropocentric habits of interpretation often obscure. Yet Habel’s work leaves unfinished questions. How should ecological interpretation lead to discipleship? How should Christians committed to biblical authority and the …
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Dr. Norman C. Habel, Professor Emeritus, Flinders University of South Australia The Season of Creation Part 2 By Rod Benson Norman C. Habel’s most substantial contribution to ecological biblical scholarship was his leadership in the Earth Bible Project, an international collaborative venture that sought deliberately to read Scripture from the perspective of Earth. Closely related …
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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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Part 1 of the Season of Creation. The Season of Creation is a recent Christian observance inviting churches to give sustained attention to God as Creator, the goodness and vulnerability of creation, and our responsibilities as humans within it. Usually observed from 1 September to 4 October, it has developed into a significant ecumenical movement embracing Orthodox, Catholic, …
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