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Tables of Contents for Life Abundant
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
ix
Preface
xi
Part I: The Practice of Planetary Theology
A Brief Credo
3
22
A Religious Autobiography
3
6
Some Reflections
9
6
Thinking Theologically
15
2
A Credo
17
8
Theology Matters
25
14
Is Theology Possible for North American Christians?
25
8
Ecological Theology: A North American Liberation Theology
33
6
The Matter of Theology
39
36
Contexts
40
11
Content
51
6
Criteria
57
18
Part II: The Context of Planetary Theology
Introduction
71
4
The Contemporary Economic Model and Worldview
75
24
Neo-classical Economics and Its Worldview
75
6
The Contemporary Economic Worldview and the Consumer Society
81
12
An Assessment of the Consumer Society
93
6
The Ecological Economic Model and Worldview
99
34
The Ecological Economic Worldview and the Ecological Society
105
15
An Assessment of the Ecological Society
120
13
Part III: The Content of Planetary Theology
Introduction
127
6
God and the World
133
24
Some Preliminary Reflections
133
2
Beginning with God
135
3
God Is Love: The Many Ways to Say It
138
5
God as Creator, Liberator, and Sustainer
143
5
How Is God Present in the World?
148
3
Is Reality Good?
151
6
Christ and Salvation
157
24
Christ and the Neo-Classical Economic Worldview
157
3
Ecological Christologies
160
6
An Ecological Economic Christology: Prophetic and Sacramental
166
5
Christ and the Ecological Economic Worldview
171
10
Life in the Spirit
181
22
Human Existence in the Spirit
182
4
The Life of Discipleship: John Woolman and Dorothy Day
186
9
Life in the Church
195
4
Life in Society
199
4
Epilogue
203
2
Appendix: A Manifesto to North American Middle-Class Christians
205
6
Notes
211
32
Index
243