THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION 
TO MEET THE 
ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGE
 
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Toward Just and Sustainable Communities

Initiated in 1992 by the Program on Ecology, Justice and Faith
and the Center for Respect of Life and Environment (CRLE),
in collaboration with a panel of advisors, and with major
funding from The MacArthur Foundation,
The Pew Charitable Trusts, and
The Humane Society of the United States,
involves several hundred scholars and religious leaders
in a North American network. To join, see the form
at the bottom of this page.

Theological Education to meet the Environmental Challenge (TEMEC) seeks to make "ecojustice"—ecological integrity with social justice a central focus of religious self-understanding; scholarship and teaching in higher education; and action at the personal, institutional, and social policy level. The basic norms of eco-justice ethics include: ecological sustainability, fair participation in social policy decisions, sufficiency of production-consumption and community life that is celebrative, cares for otherkind, and uses appropriate technology.


MAJOR AIMS
 + To assist seminaries, schools of theology, colleges and universities to reform course work, community life, and institutional practice in order to better prepare religious, scientific, business, and professional leaders to meet the environmental challenge; and to strengthen a coalition of theoretician/practitioners dealing with the global/local "environmental" challenge, broadly defined.

+ To explore new dimensions of research and teaching on Ecology, Justice and Faith; and to foster professional development of scholars through special conferences and seminars that cross the fields of theology and connect with cognate disciplines in the humanities and sciences.

+ To engage theological educators in critical reflection on the issues and ethics of population, consumption, and environment; and to help an emerging set of academic and religious leaders to gain enough competence and confidence to take effective leadership in eco-justice education and citizenship.

+ To identify resources for teaching and to disseminate a few strategic publications that provide in-depth orientation for religious studies focused on renewing creation and seeking eco-justice.

+ To encourage praxis-based learning as well as better course offerings, and to foster campus-based initiatives in theological education to demonstrate just- and sustainable institutional operations as well as public involvement.

+ To prepare the ground for regional cooperation in graduate studies and continuing education on ecology, justice, and religion.

 TEMEC Advisory Committee

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Please send me program details on the following conferences:
__ Pedagogy for Eco-Justice (Claremont, 11/9-11/97)
__ Global Eco Justice in Urban Society (Chicago, 4/23-25/98)
__ Ecumenical Earth (New Yak City, 10/22-24/98)

and . . . . .

___Please send me a copy of the Resource Packet, Ecology and Equity: Exploring Ethics and Policies of Population/Poverty/ Consumption/Environment at a cost of $15.

___I would like to receive a discounted copy of Theology for Earth Community: A Field Guide at a cost of $12, including shipping and handling.

___I would like to become a Friend of the Center (CRLE) for $20 per year, and receive a one-year subscription to its quarterly journal Earth Ethics plus information and discounts on CRLE programs, including TEMEC conferences.

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TEMEC Advisory Committee
Thomas Berry, Historian of Cultures, Greensboro, NC
John B. Cobb, Jr., Co-Director, Center for Process Studies, Claremont, CA
Thomas Dozeman, Professor of Old Testament, United Theological Seminary, Dayton, OH
Job Ebenezer, Director, Environmental Stewardship, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Chicago, IL
Robert Edgar, President, School of Theology at Claremont, Claremont, CA
J. Ronald Engel, Professor of Social Ethics, Meadville/Lombard Theological School, Chicago, IL
Wesley Granberg-Michaelson, Director, The Reformed Church in America' New York, NY
Heidi Hadsell, Director, Ecumenical Institute, Chateau De Bossey, Switzerland
Theodore Hiebert, Professor of Hebrew Bible, McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago, IL
Joe Holland, Visiting Professor in Philosophy and Religion, St. Thomas University, Miami, FL
John A. Hoyt, Chief Executive, The Humane Society of the United States, Washington, DC
Thomas L. Hoyt Jr., Presiding Bishop, Fourth District, Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, Shreveport, LA
Loretta Jancoski, Director, Institute for Theological Studies, Seattle, WA
Carol E. Johnston, Assistant Professor of Theology and Culture, Christian Theological Seminary, Indianapolis, IN
Stan LeQuire, Director, Evangelical Environmental Network Wynnewood, PA
Jay McDaniel, Director, Steele Center for the Study of Religion and Philosophy, Conway, AR
Joan Martin-Brown, Adviser to the Vice President, Environmentally Sustainable Development,
   The World Bank Washington, DC
James Parks Morton, President, Interfaith Center of New York, NY
James Nash, Executive Director, The Churches' Center on Theology and Public Policy, Washington, DC
Larry Rasmussen, Professor of Social Ethics, Union Theological Seminary' New York' NY
Rosemary Radford Ruether, Professor of Theology, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, Chicago, IL
David Rhoads, Professor of New Testament, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, Chicago, IL
J. Stephen Rhodes, Associate Director, Appalachian Ministries Educational Resource Center, Berea' KY
Mary Evelyn Tucker' Associate Professor of Religion, Bucknell University. Lewisburg. PA
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