Sallie McFague (1933–2019)

Is there any sense of transcendence, of spirit, of Christ, of Trinity that will help rather than harm the earth today? McFague takes up these great and heavy questions with firmness and authority, with modesty and ambiguity, with wisdom and patience. No one else has yet unfolded with comparable constructive clarity the relation between the earth crisis and our notion of God.

This was one of the most exciting works of theology I have read in some time. McFague seems to spend a great deal of time doing theology on the edge. by that I mean that her theology searches for new models, new metaphors, new understandings, instead of regurgitating the orthodoxy of tradition. In this specific work she spends a great deal of time on the task of thinking and doing theology which I found very engaging. She launches a not-so-subtle criticism of modern American Christianity show more which is largely therapeutic and self-serving, and finally introduces the idea of doing Liberation theology in the North American Context. We must be liberated from the consumer culture that we do not even realize we live in, and the results of which contribute to poverty around the world and the destruction of creation. A ground-breaking classic. show less

Sally McFague seeks to find Christianity justification for commitment to ecology and environmentalism in A New Climate for Theology. For too long, the orthodox view of God as a transcendent deity 'out there,' set in contrast to our mundane lives, has been damaging to how we relate to the world. But by underscoring God's continuing role in creation, and by interpreting our responsibilities in Genesis as stewardship rather than domination, the book reshapes Christian theology into something show more more eco-friendly. The book spends a good amount of space on systematic theology - detailing models of God and the respective ecological consequences and so forth. But it also becomes a call to action. McFague takes up the slogan "A different world is possible," and argues that this revelation of a 'different world' is not God's to effect, but our own. show less

This is a primer in theology to help Christians to see themselves in the larger Christian tradition and the felt needs of the earth,