RT Article
T1 Tracing Origins of Twenty-First Century Ecotheology: The Poetry of Christopher Southgate
JF Zygon
VO 53
IS 3
SP 866
OP 875
A1 Boone, Margaret S.
A1 Corbally, Christopher J. 1946-
LA English
PB Wiley-Blackwell
YR 2018
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1580886213
AB With the goal of better understanding how science, religion, and poetic art came together in the work of Christopher Southgate, the authors first explore his spiritual poetry. They come away with a better understanding of the author's commitment to a broad naturalism that contributes, along with his own faith experience, to his prose works in the emerging field of ecotheology. The authors conclude that Southgate's work is part of the worldwide emergence of a theological rationale that supports environmentalism, the protection of species, and the conservation of biodiversity. The authors find Southgate's poetry warm, appealing, accessible, and re-readable to good effect, but with a thread of danger and warning throughout. Both features are quite appropriate for the environmental movement in the twenty-first century.
K1 Christopher Southgate
K1 Biodiversity
K1 Ecology
K1 Ecotheology
K1 Environmentalism
K1 Naturalism
K1 Science and religion
DO 10.1111/zygo.12436