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Organizing Partners:
· Drew Theological School
· GreenFaith
Co-sponsors:
· Genesis Farm
· Interweave
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Ecological crisis has provoked the faith traditions
to rethink our relation to the earth. The struggle for ecosocial
justice may seem to be losing ground within the dominant forms
of politics, economics and religion. Nonetheless-- slowly and
unsurely, religious institutions are becoming conduits of awareness
and action on behalf of the creation. After a long history of
neglect, the earth’s ensemble of vulnerable peoples and
species is getting religious attention. In the United States,
a primary consumer and waster of planetary resources, no ecological
politics can really succeed without theological arguments to convince
people that such concern is part of their practice of faith. So
the awakening of faith to its earth-ground is grounds for hope
indeed.
The fifth annual transdisciplinary theological colloquium at Drew,
in collaboration with GreenFaith of New Jersey, will provide a
forum for reflection upon the relation of religion and ecology
as the ground of a more vital democracy. The earth is the ground
of all social contexts. Yet it was pushed long ago into the background
of social history. Wester religions in particular have been formative
of this earth-transcending, earth-demeaning attitude. Indeed some
religious concepts of “nature,” such as fallen, may
work against both environmental protection and democratic justice.
Yet the scriptural traditions contain extraordinary potentials
for the greening of faith. This conference pulls the earth-ground
out of the background and focuses on the many resources available
for laity, pastors, activists and scholars committed to raising
ecological concerns in circles of faith.
This conference is being planned by Drs. Catherine
Keller and Laurel Kearns of Drew Theological School, and Fletcher
Harper of GreenFaith. For details and further information about
the speakers and the upcoming event, contact GreenFaith, at info@greenfaith.org.
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