The
author relates Christ to ecology, showing the importance of the incarnate,
human Jesus to the earth community. Dr Echlin discusses Jesus in his Nazareth
years, his baptism in the Jordan, with his effect on water and wilderness,
and his public ministry. The book notes inclusion of the earth community
in Jesus' suffering, and death on the cosmic cross, affecting the whole
cosmos, and his resurrection. Jesus risen is present, filling the earth
today, inviting us to respond to the earth, to heal where earth is suffering
and to be leading friends of the earth. Reintegrating with the earth,
in a mutually supportive relationship of humans with the earth community,
is the defining issue of the twenty-first century. Edward P. Echlin is
an ecological theologian, author, and member of many environmental NGOs.
2004,
160 pages, Columba Press
ISBN 978-1-85607-451-3 (1 85607 451 X) Paperback $16.95