Reconsider the Lilies: Challenging Christian Environmentalism's Colonial Legacy

By Andrew Thompson

Christian environmentalism's dominant traditions have for too long avoided decolonial thought's critical gaze. By recounting the history of environmental justice, Thompson shows how even well-intentioned Christian environmentalism incorporates racist and colonialist assumptions. Challenging Christian environmentalism's colonial roots requires incorporating the insights of decolonial thought toward a more pluralist, pragmatic approach to environmentalism, one that learns from communities struggling against environmental injustice in the face of ecological collapse. Reconsider the Lilies focuses on different conceptions of justice and structural sin and offers a constructive cosmic Christology that traces Christ's presence in the concrete relationships that exist among all living things. Environmental theology can be decolonized. Ecological communities can be restored through healing broken relationships and power disparities by equalizing access to ecological power.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1506471757
• ISBN13: 9781506471754
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Length: 165 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.4"