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Appeals to the Bible in Ecotheology and Environmental Ethics: a Typology of Hermeneutical Stances*

David G. Horrell

Department of Theology, University of Exeter, Amory Building, Rennes Drive, Exeter EX4 4RJ, UK, d.g.horrell{at}exeter.ac.uk

Cherryl Hunt

Department of Theology, University of Exeter, Amory Building, Rennes Drive, Exeter EX4 4RJ, UK, i.c.hunt{at}exeter.ac.uk

Christopher Southgate

Department of Theology, University of Exeter, Amory Building, Rennes Drive, Exeter EX4 4RJ, UK, c.c.b.southgate{at}exeter.ac.uk

This article surveys and classifies the kinds of appeal to the Bible made in recent theological discussions of ecology and environmental ethics. These are, first, readings of `recovery', followed by two types of readings of `resistance'. The first of these modes of resistance entails the exercise of suspicion against the text, a willingness to resist it given a commitment to a particular (ethical) reading perspective. The second, by contrast, entails a resistance to the contemporary ethical agenda, given a perceived commitment to the Bible. This initial typology and the various reading strategies surveyed are then subjected to criticism, as part of an attempt to begin to develop an ecological hermeneutic, a hermeneutic which operates between recovery and resistance with an approach that may be labelled `revision', `reformation' or `reconfiguration'.

Key Words: Bible • ecological hermeneutics • environmental ethics

Studies in Christian Ethics, Vol. 21, No. 2, 219-238 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/0953946808094343
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