title: Green Christianity: Five Ways to a Sustainable Future
author:  Mark I. Wallace 
description: "Mark Wallace offers five theological guidelines for inspiring a deep Christian ecological commitment. This book should be a basic text for Christian education classes in every parish." --Rosemary Radford Ruether, Claremont School of Theology, Claremont, California<br /><br />"Christian animism! God fully embodied within the natural world! Great! What a radical message, grounded in tradition and designed to inspire Christians to lift their spirits, celebrate their bodies, and above all, save the planet-- whose crisis is also spiritual. We need more bold prophets like Wallace!" --Norman Habel, Professorial Fellow, Flinders University, South Australia<br /><br />"In this provocative book, written for a general audience, Mark Wallace challenges his readers to go to the limit of ecological Christianity. His creative interweaving of practical, almost poetic encounters with the natural world, alongside reflection on raising awareness in local deprived social communities, serves to base this book on everyday lived experience. But this book is also unusual in its deliberate yoking of environmental responsibility with reclaiming a positive approach to sensual, bodily, erotic desire inspired by alternative radical feminist readings of biblical texts. By adopting a version of what he terms a Christian animism, he challenges notions of separation that have dominated Christian thought. This book should carry a health warning: be prepared to be disturbed. But this unashamed polemic for human communities to change in order to create a more sustainable future is a message that this generation desperately needs to hear in Western societies." --Celia Deane-Drummond, University of Chester, United Kingdom<br /><br />"Christian animism! God fully embodied within the natural world! Great! What a radical message, grounded in tradition and designed to inspire Christians to lift their spirits, celebrate their bodies, and above all, save the planet-- whose crisis is also spiritual. We need more bold prophets like Wallace!" --Norman Habel, Professorial Fellow, Flinders University, South Australia<br /><br />"In this provocative book, written for a general audience, Mark Wallace challenges his readers to go to the limit of ecological Christianity. His creative interweaving of practical, almost poetic encounters with the natural world, alongside reflection on raising awareness in local deprived social communities, serves to base this book on everyday lived experience. But this book is also unusual in its deliberate yoking of environmental responsibility with reclaiming a positive approach to sensual, bodily, erotic desire inspired by alternative radical feminist readings of biblical texts. By adopting a version of what he terms a Christian animism, he challenges notions of separation that have dominated Christian thought. This book should carry a health warning: be prepared to be disturbed. But this unashamed polemic for human communities to change in order to create a more sustainable future is a message that this generation desperately needs to hear in Western societies." --Celia Deane-Drummond, University of Chester, United Kingdom<br /><br />"At last: an erotically charged eco-Christianity! Brimming with the sensuous spirit of the creation--and of our most intimate participation in it--this work by a leading ecological theologian will make green converts not by apocalyptic threat but by joyful attraction." --Catherine Keller, Professor of Constructive Theology, Drew Theological School<br /><br />"In this provocative book, written for a general audience, Mark Wallace challenges his readers to go to the limit of ecological Christianity. His creative interweaving of practical, almost poetic encounters with the natural world, alongside reflection on raising awareness in local deprived social communities, serves to base this book on everyday lived experience. But this book is also unusual in its deliberate yoking of environmental responsibility with reclaiming a positive approach to sensual, bodily, erotic desire inspired by alternative radical feminist readings of biblical texts. By adopting a version of what he terms a Christian animism, he challenges notions of separation that have dominated Christian thought. This book should carry a health warning: be prepared to be disturbed. But this unashamed polemic for human communities to change in order to create a more sustainable future is a message that this generation desperately needs to hear in Western societies." --Celia Deane-Drummond, University of Chester, United Kingdom
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  JESUS RECYCLED
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  THE ULTIMATE SUSTAINABLE RESOURCE
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Compiled and Illustrated
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  By Elizabeth Wallace
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright©2009 by Elizabeth Wallace
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Jesus Recycled: The Ultimate Sustainable Resource
  
  
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  ISBN 9781478706267
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  All rights reserved solely by the author. The author guarantees all contents
  are original and do not infringe upon the legal rights of any other person or
  work. New Testament quotations are from the New King James Version and the New
  International Version. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form
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  For Lauren and Julia
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  , is certainly appropriate when applied to the words of Jesus, for his
  teachings were “recycled” by word of mouth during his lifetime and for sixty
  years after his death—written accounts beginning around AD 60-90. And 