Christian Environmental Studies: Toward A Graduate Program-Revised and Expanded-Second Edition - Softcover

Salomon, Daniel Aaron

9781479145591: Christian Environmental Studies: Toward A Graduate Program-Revised and Expanded-Second Edition

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ISBN 10: 1479145599 ISBN 13: 9781479145591

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012

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Daniel Salomon unveils a "makeover" of his earlier concept--- a proposed Master of Arts Program in Christian Environmental Studies which is full, in-residency, accredited, non-secular, Christocentric, and life-affirming. With refined syllabuses and readings, a more user-friendly format and a proposal for a faith-based school of the environment, Salomon incoroperates new insights, new resources, new breakthroughs in the feild and over five years of hard-won professional experience. Showing why existing programs are insufficient and getting beyond just trying to convert Christians to environmentalism, Christian Environmental Studies helps people, once they are on board with the Christian environmental “bandwagon,” steady the course. Christian Environmental Studies is for anyone who wants to deepen and live-out their ecological commitments and is especially targeted towards Christian academics and administrators at seminaries, theological schools, divinity schools, and Christian colleges and universities, who want to address the environment, but are not quite sure how to do it. At heart, Christian Environmental Studies is a book about Christian environmental leadership. In an issue no more urgent, Salomon continues to talk to the Christian faith community about the need to harness, systematize, and structure their newfound ecological awareness toward creating green social structures in the Body of Christ. Focusing on the sector of Christian academia, Salomon makes the case why Christians need to channel their impetus for global environmental change towards the goal of actualization and realization making ecological commitments systemic and structural to Christiantom. Salomon demonstrates why it is time now to take Christian environmentalism to the next level. It is time more than ever, especially since Christian environmentalism is more and more being adopted by theologians, pastors and even by some secular environmentalists, to get beyond angry sermons and top-down resolutions, to looking at planetary issues more thoughtfully, to empower more colloberation by the laity, to fully welcome the full diversity of the environmental and animal movements, becomming a more coherent, life-affirming ecological voice in the process. Moving the planetary agenda from Sunday worship services to Christian acedemia and involving the laity would reduce political polarization in America, increase ecological commitment and maybe even save community in America.

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About the Author

Daniel Salomon has a Master of Arts from Andover Newton Theological School and a Graduate Certificate in Science and Religion from the Schools of the Boston Theological Institute.Salomon's undergraduate is from Salisbury University (a state university of Maryland) with a BS Cum Laude in Liberal Studies with concentrations in Biology, Environmental Studies and Conflict Analysis/Dispute Resolution.Salomon also has a Naturalist Certificate from the Au Sable Institute of Environmental Studies in Michigan.Salomon has also published four other books on Amazon, as well as published in The Journal of Critical Animal Studies (JCAS), The Society for Disability Studies (SDS), The Scavenger and all-creatures.org.

From the Back Cover

Daniel Salomon has a unique perspective on environmental concerns and theological education, and a unique vocation to integrate the two. As he rightly notes, many in the environmental movement are indifferent or even hostile toward Christianity (and blame it for abusive treatment of the earth) while in the training of Christian ministers attention to ecological issues is largely lacking. This has begun to change in some circles, as evidenced by the recent emergence of environmental concern among North American evangelicals.
Salomon makes a passionate argument that these parties--the environmental movement and the Christian churches---need each other. It is an argument that goes to the roots of each perspective and along the way it provides challenges for virtually all ideologies. Salomon eludes easy classification and covers a wide range of disciplines. But the truly distinctive thing about his approach is his commitment to provide a concrete vision of how this educational integration can be achieved in practice. He spells out the resources and the program of study that can equip a new generation of leaders to engage faith and nature.
Wide-ranging and iconoclastic, this work is permeated with his palpable kinship with the natural world and an unaffected love of God. Daniel Salomon has much in common with the St. Francis who inspires him. He is the only person I know whom I can imagine truly preaching to the birds. He has something to teach the rest of us as well.

S. Mark Heim
Samuel Abbot Professor of Christian Theology
Andover Newton Theology