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Resources
Publications
- Robert S. White, ed., Creation in Crisis: Christian Perspectives on Sustainability (SPCK, 2009), (contains chapters by KLICE Advisory Council members Robert White and Brian Heap, and by Hilary Marlow and Jonathan Moo).
Audio/Video
- The Church's response to the coming 'crisis of sustainability' - Colin Bell
- Environmental Apocalypse and Christian Hope - Robert White & Jonathan Moo
- Colin Bell writes on faith and sustainability.
Media
- Jonathan Chaplin articles in the Guardian.
Events
Future
More information will be available soon.
Past
'Big Society - Bigger Nature?': October 1, 2011
- 60 people attended this conference on civil society, big society and the ecological crisis, organised by Dr Peter Scott, director of the Lincoln Theological Institute, University of Manchester. The event was co-sponsored by KLICE and two other organisations. Jonathan Chaplin gave a lecture entitled 'Can "nature" tell us how big society should be?'
Sustainability in Crisis - visit the conference blog
- This major conference is the culmination of a 3-year project jointly with the Faraday Institute. It is aimed at practitioners, academics and policy-makers and is interdisciplinary, international, and inter-faith. Its theme is the contribution of Christianity and other major world faiths to diagnosing and addressing issues of sustainability in consumption, productionand governance.
- Andy Atkins - executive director, Friends of the Earth UK
- Paul Chambers - senior official, Department of Energy and Climate Change
- Juliet Davenport- CEO of Good Energy
- Paul Ekins - UCL Energy Institute
- Fazlun Khald - Islamic Foundation for Ecological and Environmental Sciences
- Bill McKibben - leading US environmental writer and campaigner (350.org)
- Ann Pettifor - executive director, Advocacy International
- Visit conference blog here.
- Read Guardian posting on 'Earth Day' by project staff member Colin Bell.
Research
Projects: KLICE is a partner in an ambitious three-year project on environmental theology and ethics, called ‘Hope for Creation’, in partnership with the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, St. Edmund’s College, Cambridge. For more information see the Projects page.
Recommended Reading
Books
- Hilary Marlow, Biblical Prophets and Contemporary Environmental Ethics (Oxford University Press, 2009).
Links
For articles:
- Studies in Christian Ethics
- Journal of Religious Ethics
- International Journal of Public Theology
- Grove Booklets
Other:
1. Colloquium on Biblical Law will take place on 19-20 March. Click here for booking form.
2. Jonathan Chaplin writes on a setback for secularism.
3. Latest KLICE News published for January and Comment for February.
4. Video: Director interviewed on PM’s speech on ‘Christian Britain’.