Much current commentary on climate change; both secular and theological; focuses on the duties of individual citizens to reduce their consumption of fossil fuels. In A Political Theology of Climate Change; however; Michael Northcott discusses nations as key agents in the climate crisis.Against the anti-national trend of contemporary political theology; Northcott renarrates the origins of the nations in the divine ordering of history. In dialogue with Giambattista Vico; Carl Schmitt; Alasdair MacIntyre; and other writers; he argues that nations have legal and moral responsibilities to rule over limited terrains and to guard a just and fair distribution of the fruits of the earth within the ecological limits of those terrains.As part of his study; Northcott brilliantly reveals how the prevalent nature-culture divide in Western culture; including its notion of nature as "private property;" has contributed to the global ecological crisis. While addressing real difficulties and global controversies surrounding climate change; Northcott presents substantial and persuasive fare in his Political Theology of Climate Change.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A Helpful Companion to the Book of Church OrderBy TechguruA great companion for the Book of Church Order to the Reformed Church in America. A must have for ministers and lay leaders.