A Political Theology of Climate Change

A Political Theology of Climate Change

Much current commentary on climate change, both secular and theological, focuses on the duties of individual citizens to reduce their consumption of fossil fuels. In A Political Theology of Climate Change, however, Michael Northcott discusses nations as key agents in the climate crisis.

Against the anti-national trend of contemporary political theology, Northcott renarrates the origins of the nations in the divine ordering of history. In dialogue with Giambattista Vico, Carl Schmitt, Alasdair MacIntyre, and other writers, he argues that nations have legal and moral responsibilities to rule over limited terrains and to guard a just and fair distribution of the fruits of the earth within the ecological limits of those terrains.

As part of his study, Northcott brilliantly reveals how the prevalent nature-culture divide in Western culture, including its notion of nature as "private property," has contributed to the global ecological crisis. While addressing real difficulties and global controversies surrounding climate change, Northcott presents substantial and persuasive fare in his Political Theology of Climate Change.

Country USA
Brand Eerdmans
Manufacturer Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2013-11-30
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780802870988

Country	USA
Brand	Eerdmans
Manufacturer	Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
Binding	Paperback
ReleaseDate	2013-11-30
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780802870988

A Political Theology of Climate Change

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