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The Planet You Inherit

Letters to My Grandchildren when Uncertainty's?a?Sure Thing

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The Planet You Inherit

Letters to My Grandchildren when Uncertainty's?a?Sure Thing

By: Larry L. Rasmussen

For the first time ever, love letters consciously written by elders of one geologic epoch to the young of another. Our children's and grandchildren's generation will face a different world, one affected by climate instability, mass uncertainty, and breathtaking extinction. In fact, the next generation will face the reality that human activity is changing the planet from one geological epoch to another. From this vantage point--two generations across two geological epochs facing a fundamentally changing planet--Larry Rasmussen writes to his grandchildren. As a grandfather invested in a green earth and climate justice as well as a scholar of faith-based earth ethics, Rasmussen bridges this gap between generations to write to the future about climate change, global citizenship, democracy, and legacy. In topics ranging from "A Viable Way of Life" and "Democracy" to "Where We've Come From" and "Who We Are Now," Rasmussen explores the large questions of justice, meaning, and faith, encouraging us to speak to and look to the future generation and their future world.

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Broadleaf Books

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1506473547

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Moral Fragments and Moral Community

A Proposal for Church in Society

By: Larry L. Rasmussen

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Moral Fragments and Moral Community

A Proposal for Church in Society

By: Larry L. Rasmussen

Western society today lives from community fragments and moral fragments alone, and these fragments are being destroyed more quickly than they are being replenished. Larry Rasmussen assesses the long-term reasons for this situation and then proposes the forms and tasks that churches can undertake to help mend and improve civil society. This book, which had its origin in the Hein/Fry Lectures in 1991-92, functions both as an assessment of the moral climate in America today and also as a proposal for the church in contemporary society.

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Fortress Press

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0800627571

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Ethics for a Small Planet

New Horizons on Population, Consumption, and Ecology

By: Daniel C. Maguire,Larry L. Rasmussen,Reinhold Niebuhr Professor Emeritus of Social Ethics Larry L Rasmussen

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Ethics for a Small Planet

New Horizons on Population, Consumption, and Ecology

By: Daniel C. Maguire,Larry L. Rasmussen,Reinhold Niebuhr Professor Emeritus of Social Ethics Larry L Rasmussen

A radical new look at the religious, economic, and political roots of terracide and how things can change for the better.

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SUNY Press

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0791436454

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Earth-honoring Faith

Religious Ethics in a New Key

By: Larry L. Rasmussen

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Earth-honoring Faith

Religious Ethics in a New Key

By: Larry L. Rasmussen

Grand Winner of the 2014 Nautilus Book Awards Thoughtful observers agree that the planetary crisis we now face-climate change; species extinction; the destruction of entire ecosystems; the urgent need for a more just economic-political order-is pushing human civilization to a radical turning point: change or perish. But precisely how to change remains an open question. In Earth-honoring Faith, Larry Rasmussen answers that question with a dramatically new way of thinking about human society, ethics, and the ongoing health of our planet. Rejecting the modern assumption that morality applies to human society alone, Rasmussen insists that we must derive a spiritual and ecological ethic that accounts for the well-being of all creation, as well as the primal elements upon which it depends: earth, air, fire, water, and sunlight. He argues that good science, necessary as it is, will not be enough to inspire fundamental change. We must draw on religious resources as well to make the difficult transition from an industrial-technological age obsessed with consumption to an ecological age that restores wise stewardship of all life. Earth-honoring Faith advocates an alliance of spirituality and ecology, in which the material requirements for planetary life are reconciled with deep traditions of spirituality across religions, traditions that include mysticism, sacramentalism, prophetic practices, asceticism, and the cultivation of wisdom. It is these shared spiritual practices that can produce a chorus of world faiths to counter the consumerism, utilitarianism, alienation, oppression, and folly that have pushed us to the brink. Written with passionate commitment and deep insight, Earth-honoring Faith reminds us that we must live in the present with the knowledge that the eyes of future generations will look back at us.

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Oxford University Press

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0199986843

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The Predicament of the Prosperous

By: Bruce C. Birch,Larry L. Rasmussen

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The Predicament of the Prosperous

By: Bruce C. Birch,Larry L. Rasmussen

How can a church in the richest and most powerful nation on earth respond to the needs of the poor, the hungry, and the oppressed? The authors of this book describe this issue with clarity and power, and explore the biblical perspectives that offer guidance toward a viable and more equitable future for both church and society.The authors call for a radical change in life-style based on a revolution in perspective and basic values.

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Westminster John Knox Press

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0664242111

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Moral Fragments and Moral Community

A Proposal for Church in Society

By: Larry L. Rasmussen

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A Proposal for Church in Society

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Bible and Ethics in the Christian Life

A New Conversation

By: Bruce C. Birch,Jacqueline E. Lapsley,Cynthia D. Moe-Lobeda,Larry L. Rasmussen

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Bible and Ethics in the Christian Life

A New Conversation

By: Bruce C. Birch,Jacqueline E. Lapsley,Cynthia D. Moe-Lobeda,Larry L. Rasmussen

Earth is changing in ways it hasn't for hundreds of thousands of years. At the same time, Christianity is breaking away from its millennium-long geographical and cultural center in the Euro-West. Its growth is in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, primarily in Pentecostal, evangelical, and independent churches. These dramatically changed planetary and ecclesial landscapes have led many to conclude that we need a new way of thinking about our collective existence: who are we and what is the nature of our responsibility in this deeply altered world? To address that question, biblical scholars Bruce C. Birch and Jacqueline E. Lapsley and Christian ethicists Larry L. Rasmussen and Cynthia Moe-Lobeda carry on "a new conversation" that engages how Christians are to understand the authority and use of Scripture, the basic elements of any full-bodied Christian ethic attuned to our circumstances, and the nature of our responsibility to our planetary neighbors and creation itself.

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1451438540

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The Planet You Inherit

Letters to My Grandchildren When Uncertainty's a Sure Thing

By: Larry L. Rasmussen

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The Planet You Inherit

Letters to My Grandchildren When Uncertainty's a Sure Thing

By: Larry L. Rasmussen

Across generations and geological epochs, a grandfather invested in the care of our planet writes to his grandsons. Intimate and informed, The Planet You Inherit addresses the biggest questions for the next generation, of climate justice, earth ethics, global citizenship, and legacy.

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Augsburg Fortress Publishers

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1506473539

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Earth-Honoring Faith

Religious Ethics in a New Key

By: Larry L. Rasmussen

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Earth-Honoring Faith

Religious Ethics in a New Key

By: Larry L. Rasmussen

Larry L. Rasmussen offers a dramatic new way of thinking about human society, ethics, and the health of our planet. Rejecting the modern ethical assumption that morality applies to human society alone, Earth-honoring Faith argues that we must derive a system of ethics and morality that accounts for the wellbeing of all creation on Earth.

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Oxford University Press

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Bible and Ethics in the Christian Life

A New Conversation

By: Bruce C. Birch,Larry L. Rasmussen,Jacqueline E. Lapsley,Cynthia D. Moe-Lobeda

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Bible and Ethics in the Christian Life

A New Conversation

By: Bruce C. Birch,Larry L. Rasmussen,Jacqueline E. Lapsley,Cynthia D. Moe-Lobeda

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0800697618

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Bible & Ethics in the Christian Life

By: Bruce C. Birch,Larry L. Rasmussen

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Bible & Ethics in the Christian Life

By: Bruce C. Birch,Larry L. Rasmussen

In this book a biblical scholar and a Christian ethicist bring together their particular competencies to explore the functional relatedness of their disciplines in a way that is accessible to pastors and laity in churches. The comprehensiveness of the authors' scope, the quality of their methodological proposal, and the clarity of their presentation mark this a significant and useful book." -- Cover page 4.

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The Predicament of the Prosperous

By: Bruce C. Birch,Larry L. Rasmussen

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The Predicament of the Prosperous

By: Bruce C. Birch,Larry L. Rasmussen

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Westminster John Knox Press

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Ethics for a Small Planet

New Horizons on Population, Consumption, and Ecology

By: Daniel C. Maguire,Larry L. Rasmussen

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Ethics for a Small Planet

New Horizons on Population, Consumption, and Ecology

By: Daniel C. Maguire,Larry L. Rasmussen

This book offers an original assessment of the crisis caused by the combined impact of overpopulation, overconsumption, and economic and political injustice. It summons religious scholarship into urgent dialogue with the other disciplines and with the world's policymakers. The authors seek a new understanding of religion and its power since, for good or for ill, the world's religions will be players in the crises relating to population and the threat of ecocide. Two-thirds of the world's people affiliate with these religions and the other third cannot escape the influence of these symbol-filled cultural powerhouses. Ethics for a Small Planet offers complementary studies by two major social ethicists on these issues. Daniel C. Maguire indicts our male-dominated religions for the problems they have caused for our ecology and reproductive ethics. He raises the controversial questions of whether the very concept of God is a problem and whether Christianity's notions of afterlife and a divinized male have done more harm than good. Larry L. Rasmussen also recognizes that the problems of our planet are largely male-made and rich-dominated. He writes that Europeans packaged a form of earth-unfriendly capitalism and shipped it all over the world with missionary zeal. He ably scans the long history that led to the current manic rush to push the earth beyond its limits, and goes on to suggest moral norms and policy guidelines for sustainable communities and genuinely shared power. Both authors argue that there are positive and renewable moral energies in the world's religions and that unless religion, understood as a response to the sanctity of life, animates our ethical debates, the prospects for the world are grim. The sense of the sacred is presented here as the nucleus of the good and the only force that can bring about the lifestyle changes and power reallocations that are necessary to prevent terracide.

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Book's by Larry L. Rasmussen

The Planet You Inherit

The Planet You Inherit

Moral Fragments and Moral Community

Moral Fragments and Moral Community

Ethics for a Small Planet

Ethics for a Small Planet

Earth-honoring Faith

Earth-honoring Faith

The Predicament of the Prosperous

The Predicament of the Prosperous

Moral Fragments and Moral Community

Moral Fragments and Moral Community

Bible and Ethics in the Christian Life

Bible and Ethics in the Christian Life

The Planet You Inherit

The Planet You Inherit

Earth-Honoring Faith

Earth-Honoring Faith

Bible and Ethics in the Christian Life

Bible and Ethics in the Christian Life

Bible & Ethics in the Christian Life

Bible & Ethics in the Christian Life

The Predicament of the Prosperous

The Predicament of the Prosperous

Ethics for a Small Planet

Ethics for a Small Planet

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