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      Appeals to the Bible in ecotheology and environmental ethics: a typology of hermeneutical stances

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      Date
      2008-08
      Author
      Horrell, David G.
      Hunt, Cherryl
      Southgate, Christopher
      Department
      University of Exeter
      Date issued
      2008-08
      Journal
      Studies in Christian Ethics
      Type
      Article
      Language
      en
      Publisher
      SAGE Publications
      Links
      http://sce.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/21/2/219
      Abstract
      This article surveys and classifies the kinds of appeal to the Bible made in recent theological discussions of ecology and environmental ethics. These are, first, readings of ‘recovery’, followed by two types of readings of ‘resistance’. The first of these modes of resistance entails the exercise of suspicion against the text, a willingness to resist it given a commitment to a particular (ethical) reading perspective. The second, by contrast, entails a resistance to the contemporary ethical agenda, given a perceived commitment to the Bible. This initial typology, and the various reading strategies surveyed, are then subjected to criticism, as part of an attempt to begin to develop an ecological hermeneutic, a hermeneutic which operates between recovery and resistance with an approach that may be labelled ‘revision’, ‘reformation’, or ‘reconfiguration’.
      Funders/Sponsor
      AHRC
      Description
      © 2008 by SAGE Publications. Post-print version. 12 month embargo by the publisher. Article will be released August 2009.
      Citation
      21(2), pp.219-238
      DOI
      https://doi.org/10.1177/0953946808094343
      URI
      http://hdl.handle.net/10036/35893
      EISSN
      1745-5235
      ISSN
      0953-9468
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      • Theology and Religion
      • Centre for Biblical Studies

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