Ecology and theology in the ancient world : cross-disciplinary perspectives

Ecology and theology in the ancient world : cross-disciplinary perspectives / edited by Ailsa Hunt and Hilary Marlow.

This multi-disciplinary volume brings together the voices of biblical scholars, classicists, philosophers, theologians and political theorists to explore how ecology and theology intersected in ancient thinking, both pagan, Jewish and Christian. Ecological awareness is by no means purely a modern ph...

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Other Authors: Hunt, Ailsa (Editor), Marlow, Hilary (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.
Series:Bloomsbury classical studies monographs.
Subjects:
Ecology > Religious aspects.
Ecotheology.
Table of Contents:
  • Ancient ideas of politics : mediating between ecology and theology / Melissa Lane
  • The ecology of the Sibylline Oracles / Helen Van Noorden
  • Self-sufficiency as a divine attribute in Greek philosophy / David Sedley
  • A lighter shade of green : Stoic gods and environmental virtue ethics / Christoph Jedan
  • Cosmic beauty in Stoicism : a foundation for an environmental ethic as love of the other? / Jula Wildberger
  • Some ancient philosophical and religious roots of modern environmentalism / Robin Attfield
  • Creatures in creation : human perceptions of the sea in the Hebrew Bible in ecological perspective / Rebecca Watson
  • Reconsidering the chthonic in Aeschylus' Oresteia : Erinyes, the Earth's resources and the cosmic order / Emmanuela Bakola
  • The anguish of the earth : ecology and warfare in the First World War and the Bible / Hilary Marlow
  • Pagan animism : a modern myth for a green age / Ailsa Hunt.

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