Creation and the Cross: The Mercy of God for a Planet in Peril- paperback

"I recommend this book to any Christian, theologian and layperson alike, who seeks a view of God and Christ's passion that is capacious and loving enough to authentically respond to our troubled times and planet." --Brianne Jacobs in U.S. Catholic"A wonderful and engaging book.... elaborates a biblically rich and creation-sensitive theology of salvation rooted in the mercy of God and the divine solidarity with all created things." --Bible Today"Those who closely follow Johnson's work will recognize that every paragraph is steeped not only in her extensive scholarship, but in the living faith that her writing always reflects and opens up to readers. Though the distressing, pressing issue of the text is our planet's peril, Johnson gifts readers with a theology that both comforts and empowers for change." --Reading Religion 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, h