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Climate change has landed at the top of many Harvard Christian chapters’ agendas, though the sects and individuals differ in how they frame the issue within Christian theology...
...weeks ago, a large crowd gathered in the Divinity School for similar reasons. Sallie McFague, a renowned feminist and Christian theologian, spoke about the application of Christian doctrine to ecological issues...
...language about belonging to something larger, voluntary relinquishment of privilege, and understanding resources and materials in terms of something other than the individual have long been there in the Christian faith,” Tobin said...
...Bishop Roy F. “Bud” Cederholm, suffragan bishop of the Massachusetts Diocesis, climate change and environmental degradation is not only definitively linked to Christian theology, but is at its core. It is the “most serious ethical, moral, and justice issue that the church faces today” and should be at the forefront of churches’ agendas, he said...
...reality, however, is that Pope Benedict XVI and other religious leaders in Europe are swimming against a growing secular tide. A 2008 Gallup poll registered a continued decline in Christian faith across Europe. More than two-thirds of respondents in countries such as Britain, France, the Czech Republic and all of Scandinavia responded "No" to the question of whether religion was important to them. The 82-year-old Benedict has made it a centerpiece of his papacy to reverse the decline of Christianity on the Continent, where the faith originated. Last month, he used a Vatican meeting with...