Rooted and grounded : essays on land and Christian discipleship / edited by Ryan D. Harker, Janeen Bertsche Johnson ; foreword by Luke Gascho.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harker, Ryan D., editor.

Johnson, Janeen Bertsche, editor.

Gascho, Luke, 1952- writer of foreword.

Series:

Studies in Peace and Scripture: Institute of Mennonite Studies ; Volume 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Land use--Bible teaching.

Land use.

Human ecology--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Human ecology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (282 pages).

Place of Publication:

Eugene, Oregon : Pickwick Publications, 2016.

Summary:

For many of us, the connection between the ecological crisis and humanity's detachment from the land is becoming increasingly clear. In biblical terms, adam (humanity) has severed itself from the adamah (soil), and we (creation) are reaping the consequences. This collection of essays, and the conference from which it took shape, calls the church to root itself more deeply in the agrarian biblical text and ecclesial tradition in order to remember and freshly imagine ways of living on and with the land that are restorative, reconciling, and faithful to the triune God's invitation to new life in Christ. When we listen attentively to and patiently learn from the biblical text, church history, and theology, the land itself can become a conversation partner, and we are summoned to recognize that the gospel is reserved not simply for humanity, but for the whole of creation.

Contents:

Land as kin: renewing the imagination / Ellen F. Davis

Who gets to eat in the Garden of Eden? / Wilma Ann Bailey

Rooted and grounded: yet holding the land loosely in trust / S. Roy Kaufman

Land and community in the book of Ruth / Elaine T. James

Speaking from ground level: vineyards, fields, and trees among Israel's prophets / Patricia K. Tull

Enduring hope, patient toil: Psalm 37 and YHWH's agrarian vision / Ryan D. Harker

Healing, kairos, and land in the New Testament: eschatology and the end of empire / Barbara Rossing

The Apocalypse of John and theological ecosystems of destruction and escape / Loren L. Johns

Interlude one: Excerpts from Isaiah 34 (NRSV) and a contemporary interpretation / Hannah E. Johnson

A more excellent way: the promise of integrating theological education and agrarianism / Nathan T. Stucky

Lived theology in the Little Campbell Watershed: a primer on bioregional discipleship / Matthew Humphrey

The theological place of land: watershed discipleship as re-placed cultural vision / Laura Schmidt Roberts

A curse more ancient? / J. Matthew Bonzo

Eschatology shapes ethics: new creation and Christian ecological virtue ethics / Steve Bouma-Prediger

Holy ground: considering a sacramental ecclesiology in Berry's Port William / Winn Collier

Cultivating right desire: Wendell Berry's economic vision / Richard J. Klinedinst

Interlude two: creation care hymns / Adam M.L. Tice

On hollowed ground? The ambivalent territoriality of Saint Justin's interpretation of the kingdom of God and its implications for contemporary Christian theological reflection / Nicholas R. Brown

Extracting faith, cultivating faith: Andean lessons on decolonizing Christian environmentalism / Ryan M. Juskus

"But it is nothing except woods": Anabaptists, ambitions, and a northern Indiana settlerscape, 1830-1841 / D. Ezra Miller

Humanity from the humus: early American Mennonite humility theology as a resource for a grounded theological anthropology / Douglas D.H. Kaufman

They were right: agrarian voices of Mennonite Civilian Public Service men / Rebecca Horner Shenton

Interlude three: Sustainable agriculture as conscientious objection: perspectives from Japan / Raymond Epp.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781498235556

1498235557

OCLC:

957435898