Ecotheology

HEGE Series

Rabbit-Hole 04

• Environment

  • Cosmology
  • Ecotheology
  • Pollution
  • Biodegradation
  • Recycling
  • Invasive Species
  • Alexander Solzhenitsyn
  • Albert E. Burke
  • Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
  • Beatrix Potter
  • Paul Kingsnorth

Spiritual ecology | Wikipedia
Greenwashing God: The Danger of Religious Environmentalism

The Hebrew Bible and Environmental Ethics: Humans, NonHumans, and the Living Landscape
Scripture, Culture, and Agriculture: An Agrarian Reading Of The Bible
The Spiritual Roots of the Ecological Crisis
Toward an Ecology of Transfiguration: Orthodox Christian Perspectives on Environment, Nature, and Creation

“A Partner in God’s Work of Creation” – Eco-Theological Symposium 2021

The Christian Consumer: Living Faithfully in a Fragile World — Google Books

The Orthodox Church and Ecology

Ecumenical Patriarchate

Vespers for the Preservation of Creation
Message for World Day of Creation | Bartholomew I
The World As Sacrament | The Theological and Spiritual Vision of Creation

Dr Elizabeth Theokritoff

The Orthodox Church and the Environmental Movement

Living in God's Creation: Orthodox Perspectives on Ecology
The Cambridge Companion to Orthodox Christian Theology
The Ecosystem and Human Domination

The Vision of St. Maximus the Confessor
The Book of the Word: Reading God’s Creation
Green Patriarch, Green Patristics: Reclaiming the Deep Ecology of Christian Tradition
For the Life of the World: Toward a Social Ethos of the Orthodox Church, Section VIII: Science, Technology and the Natural World. A Response

The Way of the Heart

YouTube
The book of creation: How do you read?
A Worshipping Cosmos
On promoting a more conscious way of life
A World of Worship
Ecology and Christian tradition - Session 1
This House Believes In A Loving God
Creation and the Liturgical Cycle

Thomas Berry

Thomas Berry | Wikipedia
ThomasBerry.org— Bibliography

The Eco-­theologies of Thomas Berry and John Zizioulas: Intimations for Ecological Justice
The contemporary ecological crisis is the most inexhaustive anthropogenic catastrophe in human civilization yet, with its adverse waves sweeping across the globe, even to generations unborn. The earth crisis has prompted theological discourses from diverse faith traditions on the religious responsibility to preserve ecological integrity. This exigency to protect and care for creation is increasingly inevitable and religion has an indispensable responsibility in unison with societal institutions to foster a collaborative dialogue towards an authentic resolution. Within Christendom, there is a dire need for a continuous and mutual engagement of eco­theological paradigms, at the level of both orthodoxy and orthopraxis, for the enhancement of an ongoing renewal of Christian ecological responsibility.
Accordingly, given the Christian responsibility of protecting and caring for creation as a common patrimony of all humanity, this thesis will compare and contrast the functional cosmology of Thomas Berry with the creation theology of John Zizioulas in order to draw seminal theological insights suitable for the ecological justice mission of the Church. This academic research will argue that amidst the vicissitudes of human­ induced ecological devastations, the eco­theological motifs of Berry and Zizioulas are significant in the ongoing search for renewing the theological dynamics of the Church’s mission for ecological justice.

John Chryssavgis

John Chryssavgis | Wikipedia — Archdeacon to Ecumenical Patriarch

Beyond the Shattered Image 1999
Presents the full ecological significance of the Orthodox Christian worldview. It explores the deepest sense and experience of the world as a sacrament. Evokes some of the most beautiful and powerful theological thinking, with imagery that suggests a richness beyond expression. 
— Light & Life Publishing

Fr. Maximos (Vincent) Rossi

Former Head of Christ the Savior Brotherhood, Vincent Rossi (Fr. Maximos), Reposes in the Lord †Sep 23, 2022
Orthodox Ecology
Sacred Cosmology in the Christian Tradition
Climate Change: Desecrating the Icon of Creation
Styrofoam and Saint Isaac the Syrian: Toward an Orthodox Environmental Ethic
To Liturgize the World
Entrance of the Theotokos
Clash of Paradigms: The Doctrine of Evolution in the Light of the Cosmological Vision of St. Maximos the Confessor

Maximus the Confessor

See — English Moral Philosophy which turns upside down Traditional Christian (Orthodox) understanding of human nature, pleasure and pain as expounded by St. Maximus

Maximus the Confessor (580-662) | OrthodoxWiki
The Pleasure-Pain Syndrome, St Maximos the Confessor | Readings in Philokalia
St. Maximus the Confessor On Pleasure and Pain
Man in Creation: The Cosmology of St. Maximus the Confessor
Man and the Universe in Patristic Thought
The Place of God in Modern Cosmology

Why Jesus Had to be Virgin Born: Saint Maximus the Confessor Explains
[T]he whole of modern life is governed by pleasure and pain, since, in our age, enjoyment and the gratification of the senses dominate, while at the same time deep grief, an inner pain, prevails. In reality, modern man tries to escape pain through the satisfaction of sensual pleasure. All contemporary problems, such as AIDS and drugs, are to be found in this connection.

Microcosm and Mediator: The Theological Anthropology of Maximus the Confessor | Amazon
The Christocentric Cosmology of St Maximus the Confessor | Amazon

The human person as priest of the cosmos
Microcosm and Macrocosm: Greek Christian Theories

Man and the Universe in Patristic Thought — the teaching of Maximus the Confessor and modern cosmology
The Anthropic Cosmology of St Maximus the Confessor

Maximus and Ecology: The Relevance of Maximus the Confessor's Theology of Creation for the Present Ecological Crisis
Maximizing Animal Theology: Maximus the Confessor on the Value of Non-Human Animals and the Human Calling
The role of non-human creation in the liturgical feasts of the Eastern Orthodox tradition: towards an Orthodox ecological theology
Towards an Animal Theology in Eastern Orthodox Christianity

Philip Sherrard

Philip Sherrard | Wikipedia — like Jaroslav Pelikan, Sherrard was a scholar who studied the Eastern Church, and converted to Orthodoxy not long before death

The Rape of Man and Nature: An Enquiry into the Origins and Consequences of Modern Science 1987
The growing threat of ecological disaster weighs heavily on people’s minds. In this book, first published [in 1991] nearly thirty years ago but still acutely relevant, Philip Sherrard traces the crisis back to what he believes is its true origin: the incremental replacement of a participatory and sacramental understanding of creation with the more detached scientific mentality that predominates today. Sherrard believes that by accepting this materialistic, mechanistic worldview we are contributing to our own dehumanization — with drastic consequences for the natural world.

Sacred in Life and Art 2004
We are becoming increasingly aware that the forms of our life and art — of our modern civilization generally — have over the last few centuries been characterized by the progressive loss of precisely that sense which gives virtually all other civilizations and cultures of the world their undying luster and significance: the sense of the sacred. In fact, the concept of a completely profane world — of a cosmos wholly desacralized — is a fairly recent invention of the western mind, and only now are we beginning to realize the appalling consequences of trying to order and mould our social, personal and creative life in obedience to its dictates. It is not even too much to say that we are also beginning to realize that unless we can re-instate the sense of the sacred at the heart of all our activities there can be no hope of avoiding the cosmic catastrophe for which we are heading.

Paulos Mar Gregorios

Paulos Gregorios | Wikipedia — Gregory of India

The Human Presence, Ecological Spirituality and the Age of Spirit 1978
Metropolitan Gregorios ably summarises the profound thought of the Fourth Century Cappadocian Father [Gregory of Nyssa] emphasising the unity of all creation and the unity of all humanity. The mediatory and participatory role of humanity in relation to God and the world is stressed as the human vocation in time and space. He concludes the chapter by saying, "If all human activities and abilities, including the development of science and technology, were subordinated to and integrated with the quest for justice, freedom, peace, and creative goodness, the human rule over the creation could mean a blessing for the whole universe." The eastern tradition is further traced in the writings of Dionysius the Areopagite and Maximus the Confessor.

Cosmic Man - The Divine Presence: The Theology of St. Gregory of Nyssa ca 330 to 395 A.D. 1980
This book seeks to analyze the problem of human existence between its two poles, God and the Creation, in relation to the writings of one 4th century Christian thinker, Gregory of Nyssa, born around 330 A.D. and deceased around 395 A.D.

A Light Too Bright: The Enlightenment Today: An Assessment of the Values of the European Enlightenment and a Search for New Foundations for Human Civilization 1992
Questioning the very legitimacy of Western liberalism and the modern secular civilization it has given rise to, Dr. Gregorios critically examines the values of the European Enlightenment of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the corporate drive of European peoples by which they have dominated the external world. He shows that both Capitalism and Marxism, as well as Modern Science and Technology are creations of the same spirit, he argues.

Neoplatonism and Indian Philosophy 2002
During the last two centuries a remarkable similarity between the philosophical system of Plotinus (205–270 A. D.) and those of various Hindu philosophers in various centuries, including some that lived prior to the Third Century A. D. has been discovered. This book addresses the possibility of any direct influence of Indian thought upon Plotinus and his teacher Ammonius Saccas (185–250 A. D.) or even upon their major source, Plato. Are Platonism and Plotinism, and the thought patterns in Western religion, literature, and art derived from them, to be considered as mere variations on themes found in ancient Hindu philosophy or are they pure evolutionary products of Greek philosophy?

Celtic Christianity

Celtic Spirituality (Classics of Western Spirituality)
Green Martyrdom
How the Irish Saved Civilization — read online at archive.org
The Celtic Way of Evangelism:: How Christianity Can Reach the West . . . Again
A Celtic Model of Ministry: The Reawakening Of Community Spirituality

John O'Donohue

John O'Donohue.com

John O'Donohue | Amazon Author Page

Land is Alive: Lessons from John O'Donohue's Inner Landscape of Beauty
The Inner Landscape of Beauty | The On Being Project

A Celtic Pilgrimage | Sounds True

The Inner Landscape of Beauty | YouTube
The Inner Landscape of Beauty unedited | YouTube
What is Beauty? | YouTube
Bennacht | YouTube
On Being | YouTube
On Ageing | YouTube
On Imagination | YouTube
Imagination as the Path of the Spirit | YouTube