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"This book is a collection of essays by outstanding scholars of the present time. Its principal concern is to bring to the awareness of a wide reading public the riches of a particular form of the Christian theological tradition and its implications for the environmental concerns that plague us at the present time. The essays draw largely from a tradition inspired by the spirituality of St. Francis of Assisi and open to the reader a theological style developed by Franciscan theologians who drew important insights from that spirituality. Beginning with reflections on the significance of the biblical sources, the reader is then brought to a number of essays on St. Francis and St. Clare. From there the treatment moves to the work of outstanding medieval writers such as St. Bonaventure and John Duns Scotus. The final essays deal with the question of a form of practice focusing on peace, justice, and the integrity of creation."
—Zachary Hayes, O.F.M.
Professor of Theology
Catholic Theological Union, Chicago
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David Smart
reviewed Franciscan Theology of the Environment: An Introductory Reader on August 02, 2013
Franciscan Theology of the Environment: An Introductory Reader
In almost all ways a model for this kind of book. Kerr writes clearly, concisely, and with a nice ironic turn. It's well structured: it start with "before Vatican II," then a bunch of individual theologians, and ends with "after Vatican II." The story of the individuals* is largely one of a progressive move from neo-scholasticism, via a recovery of various church fathers, to a wider range of theological positions. The 'nuptial mysticism' comes out of one of those strands, and finds its most famous, and perhaps silliest, representative in John Paul II.
Kerr himself acknowledges the limitations of this structure, to wit, he doesn't deal with many of the big changes in theology. There are no women, there's no liberation theology (though Rahner leads towards it), and so on. He does suggest pieces that can tell us about those movements, but I read one of them and... well, I would rather read Kerr's clear, concise, ironic prose any day.
*: Chenu, Congar, Schillebeeckx, Lubac, Rahner, Lonergan, Balthasar, Kung, JPII, Benedict.
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