Endorsements
"Mark Wallace offers five theological guidelines for inspiring a deep Christian ecological commitment. This book should be a basic text for Christian education classes in every parish."
—Rosemary Radford Ruether
Clarmeont School of Theology, Claremont, California
"Christian animism! God fully embodied within the natural world! Great! What a radical message, grounded in tradition and designed to inspire Christians to lift their spirits, celebrate their bodies, and above all, save the planet—whose crisis is also spiritual. We need more bold prophets like Wallace!"
—Norman Habel
Professorial Fellow, Flinders University, South Australia
"At last: an erotically charged eco–Christianity! Brimming with the sensuous spirit of the creation—and of our most intimate participation in it—this work by a leading ecological theologian will make green converts not by apocalyptic threat but by joyful attraction."
—Catherine Keller
Author of On the Mystery: Discerning Divinity in Process
Professor of Constructive Theology, Drew Theological School
"In this provocative book, written for a general audience, Mark Wallace challenges his readers to go to the limit of ecological Christianity. His creative interweaving of practical, almost poetic encounters with the natural world, alongside reflection on raising awareness in local deprived social communities, serves to base this book on everyday lived experience. But this book is also unusual in its deliberate yoking of environmental responsibility with reclaiming a positive approach to sensual, bodily, erotic desire inspired by alternative radical feminist readings of biblical texts. By adopting a version of what he terms a Christian animism, he challenges notions of separation that have dominated Christian thought. This book should carry a health warning: be prepared to be disturbed. But this unashamed polemic for human communities to change in order to create a more sustainable future is a message that this generation desperately needs to hear in Western societies."
—Celia Deane-Drummond
University of Chester, United Kingdom
