"Coming Back to Earth is a very fine, very important book, and I hope it is read widely. You have outlined, in a quite convincing way, the kind of transformation Christian faith must make today in face of the ecological crisis—the most important problem humans have ever had to face." Gordon Kaufman, Mallinckrodt Professor of Divinity, Emeritus, Harvard University

 


Contents

The Secular Trinity

Is Christianity Going Anywhere?

2 Christianity at the Crossroads
3 Excavating Jesus
4 The Recovery of Jesus’ Teaching
5 The Diverse Futures of Christianity

The Greening of Christianity

6 The Global Crisis
7 Beyond “Our Father Who Art In Heaven”
8 The Ecological Imperative, a New Ethical Dimension
9 Greening Rites and Festival
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In Praise of the Secular

10 What Does “Secular” Mean?
11 The Emergence of the Secular Age
12 The Value of Being Secular
13 Spirituality in the Secular World

14   Moving Towards a New Form of Mysticism

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