Theology on a Defiant Earth

Jonathan Cole is assistant director of research at the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture, Charles Sturt University, Canberra. Peter Walker is principal of United Theological College, Sydney.

• PrefaceIntroduction: Theology on a Defiant Earth, by Peter Walker and Jonathan Cole1.The Anthropocene Epoch and Its Meaning, by Clive Hamilton2.A Rupture in the Earth: An Implicit Augustinian Theology of the Anthropocene, by Lisa H. Sideris3.Is It Time for a Theological Step Change, by Clive Pearson4.Icarus Falling: Theological Anthropology and the Anthropocene, by Scott Cowdell5.Thy Kingdom Come: Bonhoeffer’s Earthly Christianity as Theology and Ethic, by Dianne Rayson6.Anthropocene and Ecclesia: The Church in Swarming Mode, by Stephen Pickard7.Thinking Eschatologically in the Face of the Anthropocene, by Christiaan Mostert8.Apocalypse and the Anthropocene: A Biblical Resource for a New Global Epoch, by David Neville9.Redeeming Eden: Biblical Ethics in the Anthropocene, by Mark G. Brett10.The Serpent in the Garden—Sin and the Anthropocene, by Peter Walker11.Defiant God: The Fate of Christianity’s Holocene Ontology in the Anthropocene, by Jonathan Cole12.A Climate of Hope? Reflection

This is public theology at its best, addressing the global issue of our time. The public challenge of the Anthropocene has been set out to devasting effect by Clive Hamilton. His analysis is thoughtfully explored in this seminal volume of essays by theologians and religion scholars in dialogue with Hamilton. This is also cross-disciplinary theological inquiry at its best, finding hope only after rigorous engagement with ‘Australia’s troubled prophet of the Anthropocene.’ I highly commend its wisdom for our time.