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INDEX OF ALL INDEXES
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Index - Hermeneutics
Index - History of Ancient Humanity <-- Under Construction
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Index - History of the Church <-- under construction
Tuesday, November 30, 2021
God is Green. Green is Good. Green is the new Liberation.
God is Green. Green is Good. Green is the new Liberation.
- R.E. Slater
Green is good. Green is godly. It stands against sin and evil
proposing beneficial ways of wellbeing for humanity and creation.
- R.E. Slater
Pictured here are Native Americans whose recent legacies have shown to the rest of the world the importance of earthcare and restoration. We honor them for their wisdom and vision. - re slater
Along with several ecological links I've posted today and yesterday I would like to suggest several books on ecotheology and social justice across a diverse series of international thinking and input. As a Process Christian I consider Earthcare as much a biblical subject and necessity as a theology of God. Not the least of which is my notice of how deeply intertwined recent Earthcare communities have become with worldwide earth restoration projects which are leveraging geographic localities and biotic regions for the wellbeing of nature. Each Earthcare group has been attempting in their own way to oppose and restrict commercial development and economic powers from further denigrating the land, water, and lungs of the earth. Teaching green-minded citizenry how to behave and construct differently within a post-industrial societal context as we become more committed to the earth than ever before.
Generally, as the earth dies so do we. Economic competition has long been a tribalized force throughout history. Wars have been waged over water scarcity, fertile green lands, and mineral resources. We have raped the land; stolen oil, fishing grounds, and ores from one another; and have pillaged communities from their rightful property rights. Earth justice and ecosocial liberation is no joke. It is the rightful response of the oppressed to their Christian, religious, and secular oppressors having acted unfairly, inequitably, and with intent to profit from oppressed communities.
As Green Christians and Citizens of the Earth we stand for rightful management of the Earth wherein both man and beast may share in its wealth as well as in its responsible management. That the 21st century see an attitudinal and behavioral shift across humanity which integrates God's love for creation against mankind's former practices of ecousuary, ecoharm, and ecotheft.
Green is good. Green is godly. It stands against sin and evil and proposes beneficial ways of wellbeing for humanity and creation. - R.E. Slater
As an extension of the ideas presented in Gustavo Gutiérrez’s A Theology of Liberation, Daniel Castillo proposes the embrace of a green liberation theology. Such a theology recognizes the need for political and ideological paradigm shifts in relation to globalization, and Castillo grounds this call to conversion in the Christian mystery of salvation. He places Gustavo Gutiérrez in dialogue with a diverse array of theological, ecological, and socio-scientific discourses, paying special attention to Pope Francis’s encyclical Laudato Si’. The central question of this project is: What is the relationship between salvation, human liberation, and care for creation?
"Essential reading in these extraordinarily troubling times." Race and Knitter have put together a collection of interesting essays on a compelling cutting-edge approach to theology of religions that is well worth the effort to read. - Hartford Seminary, CT Lucinda Mosher
"Melanie Harris has written an engaging and provocative book that deserves to be widely read. She underscores the significance of African cosmology and African-American history to ecowomanist ways of being in the world. Her articulation of these broad cosmological and historical frameworks for effective environmental justice is brilliant and timely.” - Mary Evelyn Tucker, Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology, and co-author Journey of the Universe
Scholarship on African American history and culture has often neglected the tradition of African American women who engage in theological and religious reflection on their ethical and moral responsibility to care for the earth. Melanie Harris argues that African American women make distinctive contributions to the environmental justice movement in the ways that they theologize, theorize, practice spiritual activism, and come into religious understandings about our relationship with the earth. Incorporating elements of her family history to set the stage for her argument, Harris intersperses her academic reflections with her own personal stories and anecdotes.
This unique text stands at the intersection of several academic disciplines: womanist theology, eco-theology, spirituality, and theological aesthetics.
About the AuthorMelanie L. Harris is Founding Director of African American and Africana Studies and Professor of Religion and Ethics at Texas Christian University,. Dr. Harris also serves as an American Council of Education Fellow at the University of Denver. She is author of Gifts of Virtue, Alice Walker, and Womanist Ethics, and co-editor of Faith, Feminism and Scholarship (both Palgrave Macmillan). She holds a PhD from Union Theological Seminary, New York.
Prominent theologians, ethicists, scientists, and activists explore specifically Christian responses to the Universe Story and its implications for the contemporary environmental crisis. Beginning with excerpts from recent statements by Pope Francis and the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the book includes contributions by John Haught, Ilia Delio, Catherine Keller, Larry Rasmussen, and more.
About the AuthorMary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim are codirectors of the Forum on Religion and Ecology at Yale. They were students of Thomas Berry and have devoted themselves to his legacy by editing his books and producing the Emmy-award-winning film, Journey of the Universe with Brian Swimme. They co-edited Thomas Berry: Selected Writings on the Earth Community.
This book asks (and answers) an important question: How do we encourage and empower activists and scholars to work for environmental sustainability? Lothes Biviano combines empirically-based focus group data with interdisciplinary research and theological interpretation to offer a unique analysis of what encourages and what discourages sustainable decision making, including the cognitive, behavioral, and emotional conflicts inherent in confronting climate change. A must-read for anyone searching for the spark that drives spiritual Americans to feel the environmental crisis as a sacred loss, and who are re-imagining their faith and life through environmental advocacy.
Just Water explores the necessity and availability of a supply of fresh water from the perspective of Christian ethics. This revised edition includes new data and updates on social developments related to water crises, as well as insights from Pope Francis's encyclical Laudato Si' and a discussion of water justice from the perspective of the events at Standing Rock. About the Author Christiana Zenner is an associate professor of theology, science, and ethics at Fordham University. She is the co-editor of Expanding Horizons in Bioethics (Springer) and Just Sustainability (Orbis).
Elizabeth McAnally strikes a remarkable balance in this academically rigorous and spiritually rich approach to the myriad global issues related to water. She draws from Christianity’s sacramental consciousness of baptism, loving service of the Yamuna River in Hinduism, and the compassionate wisdom of the bodhisattva to develop “an integral approach to water ethics.” Building on but distinct from the foundation laid by Christiana Zenner’s Just Water, this book is a welcome addition to the growing field of concern surrounding global water crises.Elizabeth McAnally, PhD is the newsletter editor and website manager for the Forum on Religion and Ecology at Yale University. She has taught in the areas of environmental ethics, comparative religion, and philosophy of religion.
The Cobb Institute: Ecology, Education, Planning, Collaboration
THE COBB INSTITUTE
FOR ECOLOGICAL AWARENESS, EDUCATION,
STRATEGIC PLANNING, & COMMUNITY COLLABORATION
We believe planet Earth is best viewed as a living organism and human beings are a part of it. We lament the degraded condition of our common home and the role that human beings have played in causing it. We cherish promoting its healing through education, dialogue, and initiatives that cultivate not only sustainability but also communities of compassion and equity.
DREAM BIGGER WITH US!
“If we want a society in which the sense of belonging is strong, people are concerned for one another, and there is strong commitment to the common good, we need a metaphysics that shows that we are in fact part of larger societies and have no existence apart from our relations to others.” - John Cobb
Community Collaboration
The Cobb Institute is a Think Tank with Legs. We often spark new ideas and encourage others to carry them forward as we support the effort. We are luring, assisting, and nurturing a variety of initiatives in the Claremont area in hopes that they will be a model and that their successes can be replicated elsewhere. But we’re also concerned with our common home, so we ignite efforts to develop the process movement and advance the common good in the United States and around the world by creating new communities and partnering with organizations who have connections countries like China and India. Our successes include:
Global Relationships
- Claremont Process Nexus
- Institute for Postmodern Development of China
- EcoCovenant Academy in India
- US-China Cooperation Campaign
Local Impacts
- Sustainability Major at the University of La Verne
- Economic Forum for Affordable Housing in Pomona
- CHERP Solar Works
- Urban Agriculture in Pomona
Educational Development
The Cobb Institute creates classes, hosts discussions, and sponsors workshops to educate people about process thought and ecological civilization. As we inch closer to a planetary crisis point and the need for an urgent change in our understanding of our relationship with the earth, our Learning Lab seeks to transform education to foster personal growth and wisdom. Our successes include:
John Cobb & Friends Gatherings
- David Orr, Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics Emeritus, Oberlin College
- Rebecca Parker. Former Professor of Theology and President of Starr King School for the Ministry
- Jeremy Lent, Founder and President of the Liology Institute
- Sophia Said, Founding Chairperson of the Madina Institute
Courses
- Whitehead & Jung - Integrating Resources for a Fragmented World
- The Rebirthing of God - Exploring the Ways in Which “God is Being Reborn”
- Suffering & Meaning - Understanding from a Process-Relational Perspective
- Walking With Whitehead - A Careful Reading of Key Passages in Process & Reality
Learning Circles
- An Awakening Planet - Contemplating the Vision of Teilhard de Chardin
- Women in Process - A Space for Women Who Want to Explore Their Becomings & Possibilities
Workshops
- The Process of Gardening - An Introduction to Gardening from a Process-Relational Perspective
- The Process of Dying - Forgotten Wisdom
Spiritual Integration & The Arts
The Cobb Institute promotes a process-relational approach to personal spirituality and faith communities. Creativity is celebrated and included through poetry, music and visual arts as we feature artists at our weekly gatherings, on our website, and in a new series to feature the art of process. Our successes include:
- Process & Faith
- A Multi-faith Network for Relational Spirituality and the Common Good
- Process & Coffee
- A Discussion Group About Books That Foster an Integral Spirituality
- International Poetry Forum
- An International Conference to Consider the Purpose of Poets in an Age of Ecological Civilization
- Featured Artists & Novel Becomings Series
- Spotlighting the Beauty and Multiplicity of Art in All its Forms by Process artists
Our dream in 2022 is to make a greater impact personally by providing an integrated and wholistic approach to making meaning in our world, locally by creating compassionate communities, and globally by inspiring each community to build an ecological civilization. Dream big with us! The world needs a truly creative transformation toward the common good.
About the Institute
The Cobb Institute, named in honor of our founder John Cobb, promotes a process-relational way of understanding and living in the world. As a philosophical outlook it shares wisdom, emphasizes harmony, and focuses on the common good. We live out this philosophy by working to build an ecological civilization.
With the knowledge that all life is interconnected and in process of becoming, we use education, creativity, and an open view of spirituality to help each other and our communities thrive. This is a bold collaborative view that recognizes our interdependence, and thus emphasizes that we have a responsibility to care not just for our own lives but also for the world we share with everyone and everything else.
Our Mission
The Cobb Institute promotes a process-relational worldview to advance wisdom, harmony, and the common good. It engages in local initiatives and cultivates compassionate communities to bring about an ecological civilization. These aims will be accomplished by fostering creative transformation through educational development, community collaboration, sustainable practices, and spiritual integration.
Our History
Originally named the Claremont Institute for Process Studies, the Cobb Institute was established in the spring of 2019 as a non-profit corporation in the State of California, for the purpose of continuing the mission and legacy of the Center for Process Studies (CPS)—a Faculty Center of Claremont School of Theology (CST), established by John Cobb and David Griffin in 1973)—anticipating the relocation of CST and CPS in the summer of 2019. The Cobb Institute is part of a family of process-relational organizations affiliated with the Center for Process Studies and the International Process Network.
As the Institute engaged in self-assessments and underwent various developments during the latter part of 2019, its leadership determined that the name "Claremont Institute for Process Studies" didn't adequately express its character as an emerging community with a shared interest in a process-relational way of understanding the world, along with a commitment to implementing its values in concrete ways. Because of John Cobb's role as the founder, his bold vision for an alternative future, and the importance of his life's work, in January 2020 the Board decided to change the name of the organization to the Cobb Institute: A Community for Process & Practice. The name change was officially announced at his John Cobb's 95th birthday celebration on February 11, 2020.
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