Volume 6, Issue 10, June 1997

Article Summary:


ECO-THEOLOGY

The time has come for a new Pentecost, a renewed humanity to begin the task of healing the environment.More . . .

GOOD-BYE FRONTIER MENTALITY

Theology today must centre upon ecology and conservation of nature. The Old Testament creation story, the first written of two, found in Genesis 2: 4f, views humanity and nature in balance.More . . .

A HEALTHY PLANET IS AN ESSENTIAL PART OF SPIRITUAL LIFE

One of the greatest failures in the total course of Christianity is the failure of Christians to respond to the crisis of the earth, declared the Rev. Thomas Berry, retired Roman Catholic priest at the Spring Convocation of St. Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, when an honourary degree was conferred upon him.More . . .

BUILDING THE EARTH

Among the notable religious thinkers and writers of our time was Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. A priest of the Roman Catholic Church, a scientist, philosopher, and theologian, de Chardin saw the advance of all creation in optimistic and upward evolving progress.More . . .

A BALLAD OF ECOLOGICAL AWARENESS

The cost of building dams is always underestimated
There's erosion of the delta that the river has created,
There's fertile soil below the dam that's likely to be looted,
And the tangled mat of forest that has got to be uprooted.More . . .

QUOTE FROM TOM HARPER

The Ten Commandments, though still valid, are completely lacking in concern for our relationship to other species and to the earth itself. More . . .

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