the paradigm for @OccupyTheology has shifted. It now recognizes that the the health of the economy depends upon a radical #ecoTheology.
The time has come, and has for quite some time, that a just economy has to centered in an healthy ECOLOGY. And a faithful theology had better tell this story. Larry Rasmussen’s wonderful work of #ECOTheology , Earth Honoring Faith: Theology in a New Key knows this, and makes the case very well. This same recognition also, not coincidentally I think, also pooints the way to a more equitable and workable ECOnomy. (This is another insight forwarded by Rasmussen, but shows up in so many writings of the foremost ECO-thinkers of our day.
Naomi Klein kicked it off for me with her book “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs The Climate”, Bill McKibben speaks of it all the time (as in his book “Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future”. And several of written of “The Limits to Growth”, one of the earliest being William R. Catton , Jr. in his classic work of eco-sociology, Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change. The world as we have known it has outstripped the ecological foundations of its operations. The Earth has literally had enough, and then some, and is now fighting back. Will the human race come to its senses and hear the groans and feedbacks? Will theology come to it’s senses and push back against the “Modernism” that infiltrated it for centuries as humans came to see themselves as “masters” of the universe?
