Yale University - Christianity & Ecology
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Christianity & Ecology at Coursera Overview
Duration | 18 hours |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
Christianity & Ecology at Coursera Highlights
- Flexible deadlines Reset deadlines in accordance to your schedule.
- Shareable Certificate Earn a Certificate upon completion
- 100% online Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.
- Beginner Level
- Approx. 18 hours to complete
- English Subtitles: English
Christianity & Ecology at Coursera Course details
- This course is designed as a gateway to the rich ecological dimensions of the Christian religious tradition. We delve into unique contributions from Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant Christianity, exploring views on and relationship with the natural world. We additionally highlight the relationship between Christianity and environmental justice, evangelical approaches to creation care, and Christian teachings on biodiversity, climate change, and the relationship between Human, Earth, and Cosmos.
- This course is for lifelong learners curious to know more about world religions and ecology, environmental professionals eager to deepen the discourse of environmental protection and conservation, those working with non-profit organizations and NGOs on issues of ecological justice, and religious leaders and laity who want to know how they can contribute to interreligious dialogue on environmental projects.
Christianity & Ecology at Coursera Curriculum
MODULE 1: Course Introduction
Land Acknowledgement - John Grim and Mary Evelyn Tucker
Course Overview: Christianity and Ecology - John Grim and Mary Evelyn Tucker
Personal Introduction - Mary Evelyn Tucker
Personal Introduction - John Grim
Welcome letter from Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim
How this course is organized
Learn more about your Instructors
(Optional) Religion and Ecology Conferences and Book Series, 1996-1998
Pre-video introduction: The Promise of Planetary Health
(Optional) Ways to Learn More
MODULE 2: Introduction to Religion and Ecology
What is Religion? Mary Evelyn Tucker
Lecture - Introduction to the Study of Religion and Ecology - John Grim and Mary Evelyn Tucker
Lecture - Ecotheologians, Ambivalence, Affirmation - John Grim
Lecture - Pathways into Christianity and Ecology: Creation - John Grim
Lecture - Pathways into Christianity and Ecology: Incarnation - John Grim
Lecture - Pathways into Christianity and Ecology: Sacrament - John Grim
Lecture - Christianity and Ecology into the Present: Orienting, Grounding, Nurturing, and Transforming - John Grim
Pre-lecture introduction: ?Introduction to the Study of Religion and Ecology?
(Optional) Ways to Learn More
Christianity and Ecology Into the Present
(Optional) Ways to Learn More
Module 2: Introduction to Religion and Ecology
MODULE 3: Overview of Christianity and Ecological Responses
Lecture - Overview of Christianity: Introduction - John Grim and Mary Evelyn Tucker
Lecture - Overview of Christianity: Historical Christ - John Grim and Mary Evelyn Tucker
Lecture - Overview of Christianity: Cosmic Christ - John Grim and Mary Evelyn Tucker
Lecture - Introduction to Christianity: Background - John Grim
Lecture - Introduction to Christianity: Augustine - John Grim
Lecture - Introduction to Christianity: Maximus the Confessor - John Grim
Lecture - Introduction to Christianity: Hildegard of Bingen - Mary Evelyn Tucker
Lecture - Introduction to Christianity: Thomas Aquinas - Mary Evelyn Tucker
Lecture - Introduction to Christianity: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin - Mary Evelyn Tucker
(Optional) Matthew Riley, "The Life and Influence of Lynn T. White, Jr." Interview by Mary Evelyn Tucker
Stephanie Johnson, "Christianity and Ecological Parish Ministry." Interview by Mary Evelyn Tucker
Overview of Christianity: Formation and Figures
Introduction to Christianity: Scripture and Commentary
Earth Bible and Commentary
Christianity Sacred Texts
Ecological Biblical Hermeneutics
(Optional) Pre-video introduction: ?The Life and Influence of Lynn T. White, Jr.?
(Optional) Ways to Learn More
Christianity in "Faith for Earth: A Call for Action"
Pre-video introduction: "Christianity and Ecology"
Overview Essay - Christianity and Ecology
Christianity and Ecology: Seeking the Well-Being of Earth and Humans
(Optional) Christian Theologians
Pre-video introduction: "Christianity and Ecological Parish Ministry"
Resources on Christianity and Ecology
(Optional) Ways to Learn More
Module 3: Overview of Christianity and Ecological Responses
MODULE 4: Sacramental Christianity: Earth as Sacred Icon
Christianity as Orienting to the Cosmos
Pre-video introduction: ?The Adriatic: A Sea at Risk?
Common Declaration of John Paul II and the Ecumenical Patriarch His Holiness Bartholomew I
Pre-video introduction: ?And God Saw that Everything was Good: The Theological Vision of Creation in the Orthodox Tradition?
Orthodox Writings on Christianity and Ecology
(Optional) The Face of God in the World: Insights from the Orthodox Christian Tradition
Joint Message of Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew on the World Day of Prayer for Creation (2017)
(Optional) Ways to Learn More
Module 4: Sacramental Christianity: Earth as Sacred Icon
MODULE 5: Christian Integral Ecology: ?Cry of the Earth; Cry of the Poor?
Pope Francis and the Environment: Why His Encyclical Matters
Pope Francis. ?Laudato Si: On Care for our Common Home.? May 24, 2015.
Pre-video introduction: "Overview of Laudato Si?"
Pre-video introduction: ?Our moral imperative to act on climate change?
Resources on Laudato Si?
Laudato Si? Movement
(Optional) Ways to Learn More
Module 5: Christian Integral Ecology: ?Cry of the Earth; Cry of the Poor?
MODULE 6: Embodied Christianity: Ecotheology in Practice
Sallie McFague, ?The Role of Theologians and Religious Leaders as Public Advocates for the Environment?
Willie Jennings, ?Christianity and Environmental Justice: Race, Habitation, and the Legacy of Extraction.? Interview by John Grim and Mary Evelyn Tucker
Mountaintop Removal: A Crime Against Creation
Pre-video introduction: ?The Role of Theologians and Religious Leaders as Public Advocates for the Environment?
Protestant Reformers on Christianity and Ecology
(Optional) The World of Nature According to the Protestant Tradition
How Shall We Live? Christianity and Planetary Economics
Resisting Structural Evil: Love as Ecological Economic Vocation
Pre-video introduction: "Rethinking Apocalypse in the Face of Climate Change"
(Optional) A Path from Apocalypse to Transformation
Pre-video introduction: ?Christianity and Environmental Justice: Race, Habitation, and the Legacy of Extraction?
(Optional) Eco-Theology and Zoning Meetings
Green The Church
(Optional) Ways to Learn More
Creation Care vs. Caring for the Environment
Engaged Evangelical Christianity
Pre-video introduction: ?Mountaintop Removal: A Crime Against Creation"
Evangelical Responses to Laudato Si?
Secretary-General of the World Evangelical Alliance at COP21
Evangelical Voices on Environmental Rights and Biodiversity
(Optional) Ways to Learn More
Module 6: Embodied Christianity: Ecotheology in Practice
MODULE 7: ?Integral Liberation?: Christian Ecojustice Engagement
Eco-Justice
Melanie Harris, ?Eco-Womanism, Ecological Memory, and Womanist Theology.? Interview by Mary Evelyn Tucker
Wangari Maathai, "'I wanted to do good': The Influence of Benedictine Nuns on Speaking for the Environment"
Introduction to Environmental Justice
Environmental Justice and Eco-Justice
Christianity and Environmental Justice
(Optional) From Social Justice to Creation Justice in the Anthropocene
(Optional) Toxic Wombs and the Ecology of Justice
Pre-video introduction: ?Eco-Justice?
Christianity Resources, Ecojustice Hub, Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology
(Optional) Ways to Learn More
Christianity, Ecofeminism, and Transformation
Pre-video introduction: ?Eco-Womanism, Ecological Memory, and Womanist Theology?
(Optional) African Diaspora: American environmental religious ethics and ecowomanism
Pre-video Introduction: ?The Influence of Benedictine Nuns on Speaking for the Environment?
Expanding Contexts, Breaking Boundaries
Ecology, Feminism, and African and Asian Spirituality: Toward a Spirituality of Eco-Feminism
Ecofeminism: A Latin American Perspective
(Optional) Ways to Learn More
Module 7: ?Integral Liberation?: Christian Ecojustice Engagement
MODULE 8: Food, Animals, Biodiversity, and Climate Change
Learning Our Place: The Agrarian Perspective of the Bible
Pre-video introduction: ?Looking at Food Theologically?
Pre-video introduction: ?Food, Farming, and Faith?
Practicing the Presence of God: A Christian Approach to Animals
Faith, Feminism and Animal Advocacy
Animals: Who Cares?
(Optional) CreatureKind
A Christian View of Biodiversity
Christianity and Biodiversity
(Optional) Ways to Learn More
Pre-video introduction: ?Climate Change: Faith and Fact?
Climate Change and Christian Ethics
Christianity Climate Change Statements
Pre-video introduction: ?The Sacred Secrets of Nature?
How green theology is energizing the black community to fight the climate crisis
Interfaith Power and Light
(Optional) Ways to Learn More
Module 8: Food, Animals, Biodiversity, and Climate Change
MODULE 9: Christianity and Cosmology
Willie Jennings, ?The Christian Doctrine of Creation: Reimagining an Animate and Communicative World.? Interview by John Grim and Mary Evelyn Tucker
The Influence of Thomas Berry
The New Story
(Optional) Resources on Thomas Berry
Christianity and Ecology
Pre-video introduction: ?The Christian Doctrine of Creation: Reimagining an Animate and Communicative World?
(Optional) Ways to Learn More
Resources on Season of Creation
Liturgical Responses to Creation
Missa Gaia - A Mass Dedicated to the Earth
(Optional) Animals in Christian Liturgy
Pre-video introduction: ?Procession of the Animals?
(Optional) Full of Your Glory: Liturgy, Cosmos, Creation
(Optional) A Tree-Planting Eucharist
(Optional) The Cosmic Mass
Pre-video introduction ?Hymn of the Cherubim - Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom?
(Optional) Ways to Learn More
Module 9: Christianity and Cosmology
MODULE 10: Course Conclusion
Course Conclusion: Christianity & Ecology - Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim
Letter from Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim
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