Michael S. Northcott

Confucian Questions to Augustine

Theology

“This is a fascinating work of cross-cultural dialogue between three of the most influential thinkers in human history—Confucius, Mencius, and Augustine—which for the first time shows convergences and divergences in their respective understandings of ethics and religion.”

Greening the Children of God

“In this lucidly written book Chad Rimmer makes a superb case for the ethical imperative to reconnect children with the natural world both for their own wellbeing and as the way to recover a multigenerational sense of responsibility for Earth and her threatened habitats and species. This book is impressively interdisciplinary combining an illuminating new reading of the Anglican spiritual writings of Thomas Traherne and revealing an eco-phenomenological depth to his writing for the first time, while also engaging the latest insights from child and developmental psychology and long-established principles of moral psychology on the formation of moral character. It turns out that the way to redeem nature from the currently destructive trajectory of industrial civilization involves the redemption of children and adults from the modern pathologies of individualism, consumerism, and competitive stress—by getting outside and being outside, and especially in forests and gardens, by water or in mountains. Humans cannot ‘save’ the earth unless they learn their need of Earth and her creatures to save them!”

The Future of Love

Theology

“"These essays, published over thirty years and gathered in this important new book, demonstrate the consistent acuity and imaginative power of John Milbank's politico-theological vision. Milbank bestrides the Anglosaxon theological world with a project that is uniquely embedded in the romantic, anglocatholic, and socialist critiques of modernity from Coleridge to Ruskin. In this book we see the gradual repristination of these critiques against atheism, humanism, and neoliberalism, and the unfolding of a political theology after the secular in the form of a biblical and realist metaphysic and the neoplatonist sublime. The Future of Love is a powerful rendering of a truer and more virtuous life world than that delivered by the last thirty years of godforsaken market capitalism.”

The World Made Otherwise

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“In this deeply researched and finely crafted volume Tim Gorringe presents the ecological crisis above all as a moral crisis. Gorringe develops an insightful ecological reading of the modern revival of virtue ethics, and an investigation of its implications for the core practices of human life—including building, economics, food growing and politics . . . This is interdisciplinary moral theology of a high order, reflecting the prophetic insight and wisdom of one of Britain’s finest theologians who is also a vegetable gardener, beekeeper, and shepherd.”