Land Acknowledgement - John Grim and Mary Evelyn Tucker

Course Overview: Christianity and Ecology - John Grim and Mary Evelyn Tucker

Personal Introduction - Mary Evelyn Tucker

Personal Introduction - John Grim

Welcome letter from Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim

How this course is organized

Disclaimer

Learn more about your Instructors

(Optional) Religion and Ecology Conferences and Book Series 1996-1998

Pre-video introduction: The Promise of Planetary Health

(Optional) Ways to Learn More

Course Introduction

The Promise of Planetary Health

What is Religion? Mary Evelyn Tucker

Lecture - Introduction to the Study of Religion and Ecology - John Grim and Mary Evelyn Tucker

Lecture - Ecotheologians Ambivalence Affirmation - John Grim

Lecture - Pathways into Christianity and Ecology: Creation - John Grim

Lecture - Pathways into Christianity and Ecology: Incarnation - John Grim

Lecture - Pathways into Christianity and Ecology: Sacrament - John Grim

Lecture - Christianity and Ecology into the Present: Orienting Grounding Nurturing and Transforming - John Grim

Pre-lecture introduction: “Introduction to the Study of Religion and Ecology”

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Christianity and Ecology Into the Present

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Module 2: Introduction to Religion and Ecology

Module 2: Introduction to Religion and Ecology

Lecture - Overview of Christianity: Introduction - John Grim and Mary Evelyn Tucker

Lecture - Overview of Christianity: Historical Christ - John Grim and Mary Evelyn Tucker

Lecture - Overview of Christianity: Cosmic Christ - John Grim and Mary Evelyn Tucker

Lecture - Introduction to Christianity: Background - John Grim

Lecture - Introduction to Christianity: Augustine - John Grim

Lecture - Introduction to Christianity: Maximus the Confessor - John Grim

Lecture - Introduction to Christianity: Hildegard of Bingen - Mary Evelyn Tucker

Lecture - Introduction to Christianity: Thomas Aquinas - Mary Evelyn Tucker

Lecture - Introduction to Christianity: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin - Mary Evelyn Tucker

(Optional) Matthew Riley "The Life and Influence of Lynn T. White Jr." Interview by Mary Evelyn Tucker

Stephanie Johnson "Christianity and Ecological Parish Ministry." Interview by Mary Evelyn Tucker

Overview of Christianity: Formation and Figures

Introduction to Christianity: Scripture and Commentary

Earth Bible and Commentary

Christianity Sacred Texts

Ecological Biblical Hermeneutics

(Optional) Pre-video introduction: “The Life and Influence of Lynn T. White Jr.”

(Optional) Ways to Learn More

Christianity in "Faith for Earth: A Call for Action"

Pre-video introduction: "Christianity and Ecology"

Overview Essay - Christianity and Ecology

Christianity and Ecology: Seeking the Well-Being of Earth and Humans

(Optional) Christian Theologians

Pre-video introduction: "Christianity and Ecological Parish Ministry"

Resources on Christianity and Ecology

(Optional) Ways to Learn More

Module 3: Overview of Christianity and Ecological Responses

Module 3: Overview of Christianity and Ecological Responses

Heather Eaton “Christianity and Ecology.” Interview by Mary Evelyn Tucker

Christianity as Orienting to the Cosmos

Pre-video introduction: “The Adriatic: A Sea at Risk”

Common Declaration of John Paul II and the Ecumenical Patriarch His Holiness Bartholomew I

Pre-video introduction: “And God Saw that Everything was Good: The Theological Vision of Creation in the Orthodox Tradition”

Orthodox Writings on Christianity and Ecology

(Optional) The Face of God in the World: Insights from the Orthodox Christian Tradition

Joint Message of Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew on the World Day of Prayer for Creation (2017)

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Module 4: Sacramental Christianity: Earth as Sacred Icon

Module 4: Sacramental Christianity: Earth as Sacred Icon

The Adriatic: A Sea at Risk

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew. “And God Saw that Everything was Good: The Theological Vision of Creation in the Orthodox Tradition”

Pope Francis and the Environment: Why His Encyclical Matters

Pope Francis. “Laudato Si: On Care for our Common Home.” May 24 2015.

Pre-video introduction: "Overview of Laudato Si’"

Pre-video introduction: “Our moral imperative to act on climate change”

Resources on Laudato Si’

Laudato Si’ Movement

(Optional) Ways to Learn More

Module 5: Christian Integral Ecology: “Cry of the Earth; Cry of the Poor”

Module 5: Christian Integral Ecology: “Cry of the Earth; Cry of the Poor”

John Grim and Mary Evelyn Tucker “Overview of Laudato Si'”

Pope Francis “Our moral imperative to act on climate change"

Sallie McFague “The Role of Theologians and Religious Leaders as Public Advocates for the Environment”

Willie Jennings “Christianity and Environmental Justice: Race Habitation and the Legacy of Extraction.” Interview by John Grim and Mary Evelyn Tucker

Mountaintop Removal: A Crime Against Creation

Pre-video introduction: “The Role of Theologians and Religious Leaders as Public Advocates for the Environment”

Protestant Reformers on Christianity and Ecology

(Optional) The World of Nature According to the Protestant Tradition

How Shall We Live? Christianity and Planetary Economics

Resisting Structural Evil: Love as Ecological Economic Vocation

Pre-video introduction: "Rethinking Apocalypse in the Face of Climate Change"

(Optional) A Path from Apocalypse to Transformation

Pre-video introduction: “Christianity and Environmental Justice: Race Habitation and the Legacy of Extraction”

(Optional) Eco-Theology and Zoning Meetings

Green The Church

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Creation Care vs. Caring for the Environment

Engaged Evangelical Christianity

Pre-video introduction: “Mountaintop Removal: A Crime Against Creation"

Evangelical Responses to Laudato Si’

Secretary-General of the World Evangelical Alliance at COP21

Evangelical Voices on Environmental Rights and Biodiversity

(Optional) Ways to Learn More

Module 6: Embodied Christianity: Ecotheology in Practice

Module 6: Embodied Christianity: Ecotheology in Practice

Catherine Keller “Rethinking Apocalypse in the Face of Climate Change”

An Introduction to Creation Care

Bishop Efraim Tendero: COP21 in Paris

Eco-Justice

Melanie Harris “Eco-Womanism Ecological Memory and Womanist Theology.” Interview by Mary Evelyn Tucker

Wangari Maathai "'I wanted to do good': The Influence of Benedictine Nuns on Speaking for the Environment"

Introduction to Environmental Justice

Environmental Justice and Eco-Justice

Christianity and Environmental Justice

(Optional) From Social Justice to Creation Justice in the Anthropocene

(Optional) Toxic Wombs and the Ecology of Justice

Pre-video introduction: “Eco-Justice”

Christianity Resources Ecojustice Hub Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology

(Optional) Ways to Learn More

Christianity Ecofeminism and Transformation

Pre-video introduction: “Eco-Womanism Ecological Memory and Womanist Theology”

(Optional) African Diaspora: American environmental religious ethics and ecowomanism

Pre-video Introduction: “The Influence of Benedictine Nuns on Speaking for the Environment”

Expanding Contexts Breaking Boundaries

Ecology Feminism and African and Asian Spirituality: Toward a Spirituality of Eco-Feminism

Ecofeminism: A Latin American Perspective

(Optional) Ways to Learn More

Module 7: “Integral Liberation”: Christian Ecojustice Engagement

Module 7: “Integral Liberation”: Christian Ecojustice Engagement

It’s time for global environmental justice

A Brief History of Environmental Justice

Learning Our Place: The Agrarian Perspective of the Bible

Pre-video introduction: “Looking at Food Theologically”

Pre-video introduction: “Food Farming and Faith”

Practicing the Presence of God: A Christian Approach to Animals

Faith Feminism and Animal Advocacy

Animals: Who Cares?

(Optional) CreatureKind

A Christian View of Biodiversity

Christianity and Biodiversity

(Optional) Ways to Learn More

Pre-video introduction: “Climate Change: Faith and Fact”

Climate Change and Christian Ethics

Christianity Climate Change Statements

Pre-video introduction: “The Sacred Secrets of Nature”

How green theology is energizing the black community to fight the climate crisis

Interfaith Power and Light

(Optional) Ways to Learn More

Module 8: Food Animals Biodiversity and Climate Change

Module 8: Food Animals Biodiversity and Climate Change

Christopher Carter "Looking at Food Theologically

Norman Wirzba "Food Farming and Faith"

Climate Change - Worldwide Christian Aid Projects

Katharine Hayhoe “Climate Change: Faith and Fact"

The Sacred Secrets of Nature

Willie Jennings “The Christian Doctrine of Creation: Reimagining an Animate and Communicative World.” Interview by John Grim and Mary Evelyn Tucker

The Influence of Thomas Berry

The New Story

(Optional) Resources on Thomas Berry

Christianity and Ecology

Pre-video introduction: “The Christian Doctrine of Creation: Reimagining an Animate and Communicative World”

(Optional) Ways to Learn More

Resources on Season of Creation

Liturgical Responses to Creation

Missa Gaia - A Mass Dedicated to the Earth

(Optional) Animals in Christian Liturgy

Pre-video introduction: “Procession of the Animals”

(Optional) Full of Your Glory: Liturgy Cosmos Creation

(Optional) A Tree-Planting Eucharist

(Optional) The Cosmic Mass

Pre-video introduction “Hymn of the Cherubim - Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom”

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Module 9: Christianity and Cosmology

Module 9: Christianity and Cosmology

Thomas Berry Cultural Historian and Geologian

The New Story

Season Of Creation

Missa Gaia/Earth Mass “Procession of the Animals”

Hymn of the Cherubim - Liturgy of St John Chrysostom

Course Conclusion: Christianity & Ecology - Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim

Letter from Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim