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What does climate change have to do with religion and spirituality? Even though a changing environment will have a dire impact on human populations--affecting everything from food supply to health to housing--the vast majority of Americans do not consider climate change a moral or a religious issue. Yet the damage of climate change, a phenomenon to which we all contribute through our collective carbon emissions, presents an unprecedented ethical problem, one that touches a foundational moral principle of Christianity: Jesus's dictate to love the neighbor. This care for the neighbor stretches across time as well as space. We are called to care for the neighbors of the future as well as those of the present. How can we connect the ethical considerations of climate change--the knowledge that our actions directly or indirectly cause harm to others--to our individual and collective spiritual practice? Christianity in a Time of Climate Change offers a series of reflective essays that consider the Christian ethics of climate change and suggest ways to fold the neighbors of the future into our spiritual lives as an impetus to meaningful personal, social, and ultimately environmental transformations.

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"""This remarkably prescient book comes to us at a time when a global pandemic unleashes unprecedented consequences on our vulnerable earthly home as we scramble to comprehend how the long-term consequences of this will forever alter how we relate to each other and to the damaged ecosystem that has been almost irreparably altered by human rapacity and indifference. This book addresses the human-caused contagion that results in climate change with urgent and sobering realism; insightful biblical re-reading, forthright probing of the Christian traditions; all enveloped within a vision of justice that challenges our complacency and shatters our smugness."" --J. Jayakiran Sebastian, Dean and H. George Anderson Professor of Mission and Cultures, United Lutheran Seminary ""Many have tried to connect faith to climate change. Kristen Poole has made the most thorough and ambitious connection to Christianity to date."" --Mark Reynolds, Executive Director, Citizens' Climate Lobby, Citizens' Climate Education ""Our planet is warming and the consequences for humanity are becoming increasingly dire. We can no longer ignore or dismiss the pleading of climate scientists. There is an urgency to act. . . . Kristen Poole addresses these and other issues in her book, Christianity in a Time of Climate Change. Through a series of extended reflections, she makes the case that climate change is not merely a political or economic issue, it is also a moral and spiritual issue. . . . Poole's book is an important addition to Christian literature on our responsibility to future generations in a time of climate crisis. Readers will find it challenging, thought-provoking, and insightful."" --Finn R. Pond, The Franciscan Times"

This remarkably prescient book comes to us at a time when a global pandemic unleashes unprecedented consequences on our vulnerable earthly home as we scramble to comprehend how the long-term consequences of this will forever alter how we relate to each other and to the damaged ecosystem that has been almost irreparably altered by human rapacity and indifference. This book addresses the human-caused contagion that results in climate change with urgent and sobering realism; insightful biblical re-reading, forthright probing of the Christian traditions; all enveloped within a vision of justice that challenges our complacency and shatters our smugness. --J. Jayakiran Sebastian, Dean and H. George Anderson Professor of Mission and Cultures, United Lutheran Seminary Many have tried to connect faith to climate change. Kristen Poole has made the most thorough and ambitious connection to Christianity to date. --Mark Reynolds, Executive Director, Citizens' Climate Lobby, Citizens' Climate Education

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Kristen Poole is the Ned B. Allen Professor of English at the University of Delaware. She specializes in the intersection of science, religion, and literature in early modern England, and is the author of many scholarly books and articles. She holds a PhD from Harvard and an STM from United Lutheran Seminary, Philadelphia.

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