Creation and the Cross: The Mercy of God for a Planet in ...
Johnson, Elizabeth A. / Benson, Rosemary![Creation and the Cross: The Mercy of God for a Planet in Peril](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/439/43940477/CHSBZCOP0343940477.jpg)
In this fresh creative approach to theology, Elizabeth Johnson asks how we can understand cosmic redemption in a time of advancing ecological devastation. In effect, how can we extend the core Christian belief in salvation to include all created beings? Immediately this question runs into a formidable obstacle: the idea that Jesus's death on the cross was required as atonement for human sin--a theology laid out by the eleventh-century theologi...