Fortress Press

"This book matters! Sallie McFague has created something important and necessary—a model of God specifically for the sake of the earth. If traditional concepts of god have alienated us from the bodies of the material world, then what alternative do we have? Is there any sense of transcendence, of spirit, of Christ, of trinity that will help rather than harm the earth today? McFague takes up these great and heavy questions with firmness and authority, with modesty and ambiguity, with wisdom and patience. No one else has yet unfolded with comparable constructive clarity the relation between the earth crisis and our notion of God."
— Catherine Keller, Drew University

"A breakthrough. A wonderful work, one that is likely to have an impact comparable to Models of God. I thoroughly enjoyed this work and found it to be immensely helpful."
— Peter C. Hodgson, Vanderbilt Divinity School

"A very distinctive and important new option for Christian theology. McFague proposes in a clear and challenging way a theological program based on what she calls 'the organic model' for conceiving God. Her model is in keeping with contemporary scientific understandings of the widely accepted common creation story and provides a good basis for reconceiving the Christian understanding of human existence in an ecologically ordered natural world. Very illuminating, with some brilliant insights."
— Gordon D. Kaufman, Harvard Divinity School

Acknowledgments
Introduction

THE CONTEXT

1. The Ecological Crisis
   A Lament for the Planet
   The Planetary Agenda
   One Theologian's Response: The Model of the Body
   A Meditation on the Body
   
   COSMOLOGY
   
2. The Organic Model
   The Classic Organic Model
   The Common Creation Story
   Embodied Knowing, Embodied Doing
   Ecological Unity
   
   METHODOLOGY
   
3. A Theology of Nature
   Theology and the Planetary Agenda
   Theology of Nature: Remythologizing Christian Doctrine
   A Reading of Postmodern Science: Organism or Mechanism
   
   ANTHROPOLOGY
   
4. At Home on the Earth
   Our Place in the scheme of Things
   Sin: the Refusal to Accept Our Place
   
   THEOLOGY
   
5. God and the World
   A Meditation on Exoduc 33:23b
   Major Models of God and the World
   Spirit and Body
   Creation: Production, Proceation, or Procreation-Emanation?
   
   CHRISTOLOGY
   
6. The Body of God
   The Shape of the Body: The Christic Paradigm
   The Scope of the Body: The Cosmic Christ
   Face, Body, and Spirit: Some Reflections on the Trinity
   
   ESCHATOLOGY
   
7. A New Shape for Humanity
   Eschatology: The Hope for a New Creation
   Ethics: A New Lens for Seeing
   Ecclesia: A Sign of the New Creation
   Some Afterthoughts
   
   Notes
   Name Index
   Subject Index