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Climate Change: UCA responds

Posted: 28/03/2007

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This essay is by Avril Hannah-Jones and is entitled "Climate Change: The Uniting Church in Australia responds to an ecumenical issue".

Avril is a candidate for the ordained ministry in the Uniting Church Synod of Vic-Tas and she has a PhD in history. As part of her preparation for ministry, Avril participated in the 2006-7 Graduate School of Ecumenical Studies, run by the World Council of Churches Ecumenical Institute, Chateau de Bossey, Switzerland. The paper was written there for the subject "Ecumenical Social Ethics".

For the purposes of the course, it was not appropriate to discuss the science of climate change, so this paper assumes that climate change is happening and is at least partially caused by human activity, and examines the responses to climate change of the World Council of Churches and the Uniting Church in Australia.  Apart from a good overview of UCA initiatives on climate change it also provides some theological underpinnings for the involvment of Christian churches in climate change issues, something that she suggests the UCA could useful articulate.  In addition, there is a very comprehensive bibliography which is divided into three sections:  Documents, Media Articles and Books and (Journal) Articles.
 
Thankyou to the Rev Judy Redman, Uniting Church Chaplain at the University of New England, Armidale, for passing on this article and providing the above explanation. To find out more about Judy's ministry check out: http://www.une.edu.au/chaplaincy/uniting/ and
http://blog.une.edu.au/unitingchaplaincy/

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