Watershed discipleship :  reinhabiting bioregional faith and practice / 
edited by Ched Myers ; foreward by Denise M. Nadeau. 
 - 1 online resource (2 unnumbered pages, xxii pages, 223 pages ):  illustrations. 
<br/><br/> Includes index (pages 219-223).  "CONTRIBUTORS: Introduction and Afterword by Ched Myers; Poetry by Rose Berger, Foreword by Denis Nadeau. Chapters by: Sasha Adkins, Jay Beck, Tevyn East, Erinn Fahey, Katerina Friesen, Matt Humphrey, Vickie Machado, Jonathan McRay, Sarah Nolan, Reyna Ortega, Dave Pritchett, Erynn Smith, Sarah Thompson, Lydia Wylie-Kellermann."--Publisher's website. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/> Foreword: Listening to water walkers /  Introduction: A critical, contextual, and constructive approach to ecological theology and practice /  The great commission: watershed conquest or watershed discipleship? /  Watershed discipleship in Babylon: resisting the urban grid /  The transfigured Earth: bioregionalism and the Kingdom of God /  God's gonna trouble the water: a call to discipleship in the Detroit watershed /  Caring for our waters: shifting the engineering paradigm /  An ecological beloved community: an interview with Na'Taki Osborne Jelks of the West Atlanta Watershed Alliance /  A pipeline runs through Naboth's vineyard: from abstraction to action in Cascadia /  Growing from the edges: conversations on land and labor, faith and food /  Plastics as a spiritual crisis /  Bioregionalism and the Catholic worker movement /  The Carnival de Resistance: dreams, dance, drums, and disturbance /  Afterword: Toward watershed ecclesiology: theological, hermeneutic, and practical reflections /  Denise M. Nadeau --  Ched Myers --  Katrina Friesen --  David Pritchett --  Jonathan McRay --  Lydia Wylie-Kellermann --  Erinn Fahey --  Sarah Thompson --  Matthew Humphrey --  Sarah Nolan and Erynn Smith and Reyna Ortega --  Sasha Adkins --  Victoria Machado --  Tevyn East and Jay Beck --  Ched Myers. 
<br/><br/> This collection introduces and explores "watershed discipleship" as a critical, contextual, and constructive approach to ecological theology and practice, and features emerging voices from a generation that has grown up under the shadow of climate catastrophe. Watershed Discipleship is a "triple entendre" that recognizes we are in a watershed historical moment of crisis, focuses on our intrinsically bioregional locus as followers of Jesus, and urges us to become disciples of our watersheds. Bibliographic framing essays by Myers trace his journey into a bioregionalist Christian faith and practice and offer reflections on incarnational theology, hermeneutics, and ecclesiology. The essays feature more than a dozen activists, educators, and practitioners under the age of forty, whose work and witness attest to a growing movement of resistance and reimagination across North America. This anthology overviews the bioregional paradigm and its theological and political significance for local sustainability, restorative justice, and spiritual renewal. Contributors reread both biblical texts and churchly practices (such as mission, baptism, and liturgy) through the lens of "re-place-ment." Herein is a comprehensive and engaged call for a "Transition church" that can help turn our history around toward environmental resiliency and social justice, by passionate advocates on the front lines of watershed discipleship. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781498280778 1498280773 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Ecotheology.<br/>Ecology--Religious aspects--Christianity.<br/>Bioregionalism.<br/>Bioregionalism.<br/>Ecology--Religious aspects--Christianity.<br/>Ecotheology.<br/>RELIGION / Christian Life / Social Issues<br/>RELIGION / Christianity / General
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BT695.5  / .W38 2016 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>261.88