In this timely book, Dianne Rayson combines a keen sense of place, theological acumen and a deep concern for the Earth and our common future with a thorough and illuminating engagement with the theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. The spiritual, moral, and theological richness of Rayson’s book gives the reader a new ground for raising the question, what it means to speak of an 'earthly Christianity' today. Dianne Rayson explores Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Christological ethic to develop a deep relational response to the unprecedented ecological challenges of the current age.

Rayson’s careful and creative use of Bonhoeffer’s work allows her to make a compelling case for us – for humans – to take responsibility for earth, to embrace an “Earthly Christianity.” The call is urgent.Īn important and rich theological contribution to the pressing climate concerns in the epoch of the Anthropocene. She explains that catastrophic climate change, ushered in by humans, is looming and that changing course requires both individual and communal conviction and moral courage. Journal of Association for the Study of Religionĭianne Rayson’s constructive use of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s theology to articulate an ecoethic and ecotheology is precisely what the world needs. This book is recommended for climate activists of faith, particularly those seeking a systematic theological foundation for climate action led by faith-based communities. Dianne Rayson’s Bonhoeffer and Climate Change: Theology and Ethics for the Anthropocene is a timely book for reckoning with the entanglement of Christianity with colonialist and capitalist views of the Earth’s resources as there ‘to dominate and ransack.

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