human embodiment. There is, too, an insistence on realized, not final, eschatology. The earth becomes the place 'where we put down our roots', and we live with 'the hope against hope' that all will participate in the resurrection of all bodies. However, God is presently and permanently with humankind: we are 'within the body of God whether we live or die'. Criticism Trevor Hart, a theologian from the Barthian tradition, within which McFague herself situated her early work, says that her approach, while it seeks to develop images that resonate with 'contemporary experiences of relatedness to God', shows her to be 'cutting herself loose from the moorings of Scripture and tradition' and appealing only to experience and credibility as her guides. Human constructions determine what she will say about God; her work is mere anthropologizing. The lack of a transcendent element to her work is criticized by David Fergusson as 'fixed on a post-Christian trajectory'. McFague defended her approach as simply being about a refocusing, a 'turn of the eyes of theologians away from heaven and towards the earth'. She insisted on a relevant theology, 'a better portrait of Christian faith for our day',< and reminded us that her approach was not intended as a blueprint, but a sketch for a change in attitude. Select bibliography Literature and the Christian Life. New Haven: Yale University Press (1966) Speaking in Parables: A Study in Metaphor and Theology. Philadelphia: Fortress Press (1975) Metaphorical Theology: Models of God in Religious Language. Philadelphia: Fortress Press (1982) Models of God: Theology for an Ecological, Nuclear Age. Philadelphia: Fortress Press (1987) The Body of God: An Ecological Theology. Minneapolis: Fortress Press (1993) Super, Natural Christians: How we should love nature. Minneapolis: Fortress Press (1997) Life Abundant: Rethinking Theology and Economy for a Planet in Peril (Searching for a New Framework). Minneapolis: Fortress Press (2000) A New Climate for Theology: God, the World and Global Warming. Minneapolis: Fortress Press (2008 Blessed are the Consumers: Climate Change and the Practice of Restraint. Minneapolis: Fortress Press (2013) A New Climate for Christology: Kenosis, Climate Change, and Befriending Nature. Minneapolis: Fortress Press (2021) References External links 1933 births 2019 deaths 20th-century American Episcopalians 20th-century American theologians 20th-century Anglican theologians 21st-century American Episcopalians 21st-century American theologians 21st-century Anglican theologians Academics from Massachusetts American Episcopal theologians American feminist writers Christian feminist theologians Ecotheology Episcopalians from Massachusetts Panentheists Religious naturalists Smith College alumni