Is It Too Late?: A Theology of Ecology - Softcover

Cobb Jr., John B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1506471234 ISBN 13: 9781506471235

Publisher: Fortress Press, 2021

Synopsis

In the fifty years since its initial publication, Is It Too Late? has proven its prescience in ways both significant and dire. As the first book-length philosophical and theological analysis of the environmental crisis, this work introduced a generation to the key elements of crisis while suggesting ways that religion can be a force for hope rather than an instrument of despair. Covering an ambitious range of issues--from deforestation to abortion, from religious views of the natural world to the need for technological innovation to avoid nature's destruction--John Cobb moves deftly from philosophical to theological to scientific learning and integrates these interdisciplinary insights into a compelling vision for what he calls "a new Christianity." Comprehensive in scope, non-technical in expression, and concise in length, Is It Too Late? provides the scholar and the student alike with a readable and compelling orientation to the philosophical and theological stakes of ecology. This Fortress edition includes a new preface in which Cobb reflects on the current situation, the specific promises and perils we now face, and how his own thinking on matters theological and ecological has evolved in the last half century.

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About the Author

John B. Cobb Jr. is the leading figure in process theology and one of the most original and daring thinkers in contemporary theology. He is cofounder of the Center for Process Studies and the author of over fifty books.

Edition details

• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1506471234
• ISBN 13: 9781506471235
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 157