African Ecological Ethics and Spirituality for Cosmic Flourishing: An African Commentary on Laudato Si' - Hardcover

by Stan Chu Ilo (Editor), Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator (Foreword by)

This is the definitive African text on ecological ethics, African environmental spirituality, a theology of creation, and climate justice. The contributors to this important volume explore the common threats facing this earth our common home and the particular threats facing Africa because of our sick environment, unsustainable development practices, and the false narratives and programs of modernity in the African Motherland. Here, African environmentalists, theologians, and peace advocates in conversation with Pope Francis's Laudato Si', develop a roadmap for pastoral, local, and global education on ecological consciousness in order to bring about ecological conversion. African ecological wisdom is also offered as indispensable resources for recovering the intimate connection of all creatures and all peoples and as a praxis of solidarity for the poor, and our fragile earth.

Author Biography

Stan Chu Ilo is a research professor of World Christianity and African Studies at the Center for World Catholicism and Intercultural Theology, DePaul University, Chicago, USA. He is the author of A Poor and Merciful Church: The Illuminative Ecclesiology of Pope Francis, and editor of Handbook of African Catholicism (2022). He coordinates the Pan-African Catholic Theology and Pastoral Network.