Willis Jenkins

Preservation and Protest

Theology

“Ryan Patrick McLaughlin recognises that good ecotheological ethics can only arise out of honest tackling of big issues in the underlying theology. From very wide reading, he identifies key cruxes as being fallenness and eschatology. He also engages the too-little-considered tension between the interests of individual creatures and the values inhering in ecosystems. He has therefore made a useful contribution to a literature of great importance to contemporary Christian thought." —Christopher Southgate University of Exeter "Ryan Patrick McLaughlin offers the reader an excellent engagement with a number of key figures shaping a religious response to both general ecological challenges and concerns about animal species and suffering. He constructively engages the critically important work of Jürgen Moltmann and Andrew Linzey but also ranges widely to draw on the vision of Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Berry, and Maximus the Confessor to build a powerful case arguing that the Christian Church must develop an ethics dedicated to ecological preservation and protest against the practices that are currently pushing ecological degradation. His vision of a ‘cosmocentric transfiguration’ is powerful and inspiring." —William French Loyola University Chicago "This very thoughtful study will reward anyone who reads in ecotheology. It is distinguished by an especially helpful series of questions that organize previous work in an innovative way and by its theological integration of animal ethics with ecological ethics.”

Reconsider the Lilies

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“In a clear and forthright voice, Thompson explains how whiteness has distorted Christian environmentalism. Then, listening well to decolonial and anti-racist voices, he constructs helpful pathways toward an anti-oppressive theological environmentalism. An important book!”

Religion in the Anthropocene

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Interpreting what it means to live in a time characterized by pervasive human influence throughout Earth's systems involves questions and narratives that appear religious in scope, even while they also challenge conventional religious thought. The essays in this collection, edited well so that they are both coherent and helpfully contradictory with one another, offer readers multiple ways into the conflicts and possibilities in the idea of the Anthropocene.”