Michael S Northcott
Biographic Data
| ID | 460311 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael S Northcott |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael S |
| FAMILY NAME | Northcott |
| SIGNATURE | NORTHCOTT M S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Michael Northcott is Guest Professor at the Evangelical Theology Faculty, Leuven, Belgium; Visiting Professor at the Indonesian Consortium of Religious Studies, Yogyakarta, Indonesia; and Emeritus Professor of Ethics at the University of Edinburgh, UK. His recent books include Place, Ecology and the Sacred: The Moral Geography of Sustainable Communities (2015) and A Political Theology of Climate Change (2014) |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Apocalypses now and then
A review of two recent books that tackle environmental catastrophe through a secular reading of theological concepts and from the perspectives of faith-based and secular ecological justice movements
The Atonement of Our Parent's Sin
This article emphasised the local Muslim community's response to environmental change and explored how religious narratives play a significant role in shaping their action. Place-based narrative is employed as conceptual frame to scrutinise the communityâ€TMs understanding of the drowning condition. As a case study, Pantai Bahagia Village in West Java is selected based on two criteria: (1) deemed as the fastest drowning area in the North Java Coa…
Fittingness and Environmental Ethics
This volume focuses on ‘fittingness’ as an ethical-aesthetical idea, and in particular examines how the concept is beneficial for environmental ethics. It brings together an innovative set of contributions to argue that fittingness is a significant but under-investigated facet of human ethical deliberation with both ethical and aesthetic dimensions. In widely diverse matters – from architecture to table manners – individuals and communities make …
Against Lockdowns for the Climate and for a Theology of a Living Earth
There is an eerie convergence in academic and media commentary between ‘public health’ policies in the time of the Covid-19 pandemic and policies to address climate change. Bruno Latour argues that unprecedented state control and surveillance of citizens in their homes, meetings and movements, are needed to address climate change. This claim rests on two assumptions. The first is that reducing carbon emissions is the way to address the modest inc…
God and Gaia
Economic Magical Thinking and the Divine Ecology of Love
Systematic Theology and Climate Change
Reading Hauerwas in the Cornbelt
In this paper I examine criticism of Hauerwas's critique of American democracy and liberalism, and of American violence and war, as sectarian and politically irrelevant. This twin account has the merit of engaging his critics from left and right. I show that his critique of American Christians, and their support of America's ways of promoting justice and freedom at home and in the world, has analogies with Foucault's genealogical project in Franc…
Concept Art, Clones, and Co‐creators
In this essay the author compares postmodern art and the cloning of mammals and argues that they both rely upon a narrative of human creativity which sets humanity in the place of God as the only source of meaning and truth in the cosmos. The Christian tradition by contrast owns limits to human making—both artistic and scientific—which are provided by the natural order of creation and by the story of humanity as fallen, and then as redeemed by th…
The Environment and Christian Ethics
This book is about the extent, origins and causes of the environmental crisis. Dr Northcott argues that Christianity has lost the biblical awareness of the inter-connectedness of all life. He shows how Christian theologians and believers might recover a more ecologically friendly belief system and life style. The author provides an important corrective to secular approaches to environmental ethics, including utilitarian individualism, animal righ…
Christian‐muslim Relations in West Malaysia Islam and Christianity in the Colonial Era
Christian‐muslim Relations in West Malaysia Islam and Christianity in the Colonial Era
The Environment and Christian Ethics
This book is about the extent, origins and causes of the environmental crisis. Dr Northcott argues that Christianity has lost the biblical awareness of the inter-connectedness of all life. He shows how Christian theologians and believers might recover a more ecologically friendly belief system and life style. The author provides an important corrective to secular approaches to environmental ethics, including utilitarian individualism, animal righ…
Concept Art, Clones, and Co‐creators
In this essay the author compares postmodern art and the cloning of mammals and argues that they both rely upon a narrative of human creativity which sets humanity in the place of God as the only source of meaning and truth in the cosmos. The Christian tradition by contrast owns limits to human making—both artistic and scientific—which are provided by the natural order of creation and by the story of humanity as fallen, and then as redeemed by th…
Reading Hauerwas in the Cornbelt
In this paper I examine criticism of Hauerwas's critique of American democracy and liberalism, and of American violence and war, as sectarian and politically irrelevant. This twin account has the merit of engaging his critics from left and right. I show that his critique of American Christians, and their support of America's ways of promoting justice and freedom at home and in the world, has analogies with Foucault's genealogical project in Franc…
Systematic Theology and Climate Change
Economic Magical Thinking and the Divine Ecology of Love
Against Lockdowns for the Climate and for a Theology of a Living Earth
There is an eerie convergence in academic and media commentary between ‘public health’ policies in the time of the Covid-19 pandemic and policies to address climate change. Bruno Latour argues that unprecedented state control and surveillance of citizens in their homes, meetings and movements, are needed to address climate change. This claim rests on two assumptions. The first is that reducing carbon emissions is the way to address the modest inc…
God and Gaia
Apocalypses now and then
A review of two recent books that tackle environmental catastrophe through a secular reading of theological concepts and from the perspectives of faith-based and secular ecological justice movements
The Atonement of Our Parent's Sin
This article emphasised the local Muslim community's response to environmental change and explored how religious narratives play a significant role in shaping their action. Place-based narrative is employed as conceptual frame to scrutinise the communityâ€TMs understanding of the drowning condition. As a case study, Pantai Bahagia Village in West Java is selected based on two criteria: (1) deemed as the fastest drowning area in the North Java Coa…
Fittingness and Environmental Ethics
This volume focuses on ‘fittingness’ as an ethical-aesthetical idea, and in particular examines how the concept is beneficial for environmental ethics. It brings together an innovative set of contributions to argue that fittingness is a significant but under-investigated facet of human ethical deliberation with both ethical and aesthetic dimensions. In widely diverse matters – from architecture to table manners – individuals and communities make …
Philosophy (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Environmental ethics (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · History (4 works) · Ecology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Politics (3 works)