Care for Creation: A Call for Ecological Conversion - Softcover

Francis

9781626981898: Care for Creation: A Call for Ecological Conversion

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1626981892 ISBN 13: 9781626981898

Publisher: Orbis Books, 2016

Drawn from his writings, speeches, and homilies, this collection by Pope Francis lays out the comprehensive vision behind his historic encyclical Laudato Si' and shows how concern for the earth calls for a profound conversion of values that involves a new understanding of our relation to God's Creation.

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About the Author:

Pope Francis (Jorge Mario Bergoglio), is the first Latin American to be elected to the chair of Peter. A native of Buenos Aires, Argentina, he was ordained as a priest in 1969. He served as head of the Society of Jesus in Argentina from 1973 to 1979. In 1998 he became the archbishop of Buenos Aires, and in 2001 a cardinal. Following the resignation of his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, February 28, 2013, the conclave elected Bergoglio, who chose the papal name Francis in honor of Saint Francis of Assisi. He is the first pope to be a Jesuit and to come from the Americas.

Review:

"Pope Francis's eloquent and ecumenical encyclical Laudato Si' has already assumed its rightful place among the most constitutive documents in Christian history. Enlarging on that contribution, with the writings assembled here, Pope Francis skillfully deploys historic Christian theological themes to sound a warning about our reckless misuse of the priceless gift of creation. He also locates this crisis correctly within the context of an economic system blinded by growth, greed and disdain for the many millions of people it leaves behind." --Harvey Cox, author, The Market as God

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