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Dr. Will W. Adams is Associate Professor of Psychology at Duquesne University, and a psychotherapist and ecopsychologist in private practice. Dr. Adams' scholarship has appeared in The Humanistic Psychologist, Journal of Humanistic Psychology, Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, ReVision, Journal of Phenomenological Psychology, Existential Analysis, and Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Thought. Dr. Adams' special interests include ecopsychology, contemplative spirituality, and psychotherapy.
Regarding his theoretical approach, he works from a perspective that integrates existential and hermeneutic phenomenology, relational psychoanalysis, Gestalt therapy, transpersonal psychology and contemplative spirituality (especially Zen Buddhism and Christian mysticism). He is blessed with a wonderful wife, daughter and son.
Our current ecological derangement is not only a biological crisis but more deeply a crisis of consciousness, culture, and relationship. The core ethical responsibility of our contemporary era, therefore, and the aspiration of this ecopsychological/ecospiritual book, is to create a mutually enhancing relationship between humankind and the rest of nature. To address the urgent concerns of global warming, mass extinction, toxic environments, and our loss of conscious contact with the natural world, psychologist Will W. Adams weaves together insights from Zen Buddhism, Christian mysticism, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and the practice of psychotherapy. Through a transpersonal, nondual, contemplative approach, Adams explores the fundamental malady of supposed separation (or dissociation): mind over body, self over others, my tribe over others', humans over the rest of nature. Instead of merely discussing these crucial issues in abstract terms, the book presents healing alternatives through storytelling, poetry, and theoretical inquiry. Written in an engaging, down-to-earth manner grounded in vivid descriptions of actual lived experience, A Wild and Sacred Call (SUNY Press, 2023) speaks across disciplines to students, experts, and nonspecialists alike.
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Folz, Bruce E. The Noetics of Nature: Environmental Philosophy and the Holy Beauty of the Visible. New York: Fordham University Press, 2013.
Lane, Belden C. 2022. The Great Conversation: Nature and the Care of the Soul. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
McFague, Sallie. A New Climate for Christology: Kenosis, Climate Change, and Befriending Nature. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2021.
Rienstra, Debra. Refugia Faith: Seeking Hidden Shelters, Ordinary Wonders, and the Healing of the Earth. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2022.
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Ecology of Vocation : recasting calling in a new planetary era by
Critically surveying various approaches to Christian ecological ethics alongside the vexing moral ambiguities of the Anthropocene, Ecology of Vocation offers an integrative approach to responsible living vis à vis one of Protestantism's key theological resources-- the doctrine of vocation. Drawing on H. Richard Niebuhr's germinal ethical framework with a decidedly ecofeminist perspective, Kiara A. Jorgenson demonstrates how vocation's emphasis on right relationship practically speaks to the embodied realities of planetary interrelatedness. By excavating the ecological promise of the early Reformers' democratized renderings of calling and linking their concerns to the contemporary context, she argues that vocation cannot be reduced to the particular aim of monetized work, nor to an elitist escape from it. Rather, vocation must be recast as the dynamic and vibrant space among the myriad roles any of us inhabits at any given time in a particular place. When understood in this light, vocation signals much more than a job, a passion, or a quest for self-discovery. An alternative understanding of vocation's very ecology can extend Christian conceptions of the neighbor beyond the human and lead the church to more faithfully pursue lives characterized by humility, restraint, wisdom, justice, and love.
Call Number: BV4740 .J67 2020ISBN: 9781978700215Publication Date: 2020-05-15
Ecotherapy : healing ourselves, healing the earth : a guide to ecologically grounded personality theory, spirituality, therapy, and education by Call Number: BF353 .N37 C57 1996ISBN: 9780800627690Publication Date: 1996-03-01
From Nature to Creation : a Christian vision for understanding and loving our world by Call Number: BS680.C69 W565 2015ISBN: 9780801095931Publication Date: 2015-10-01
The Invisible Hand in the Wilderness : economics, ecology, and God by Call Number: BT695.5 .Y675 2014ISBN: 9780881464870Publication Date: 2014-07-30
A Wild and Sacred Call : nature-psyche-spirit by Call Number: BF353.5.N37 A33 2023ISBN: 9781438492056Publication Date: 2023-02-01
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Kenel, Mary Elizabeth. “Ecopsychology.” Human Development 33, no. 1 (Spr 2012): 10–17.
Sherman, Jacob H. “Beyond the Greening of Faith: Contemplative Practice in the Anthropocene.” Toronto Journal of Theology 38, no. 2 (2022).
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Conradie, Ernst M. “The Four Tasks of Christian Ecotheology: Revisiting the Current Debate.” Scriptura 119, no. 1 (2020): 1–13.
Lombard, Christo. “Ecology and Pneuma: Needing and Finding Each Other?” Journal of Reformed Theology 6, no. 3 (2012): 262–82.
Moltmann, Jürgen. “The Transformation of Theology in the Present Climate Crisis.” HTS Theological Studies 79, no. 2 (2023): 1–6.
Preston, Katharine M. “Earth’s Self-Care: The Blue-and-Green-Marbled Planet Is Trying Her Best to Restore Stability.” The Christian Century 139, no. 17 (September 2022): 40–44.
Siegrist, Anthony G. “As Long as the Earth Endures: Looking for Providence in the Ecological Crisis.” Vision (Winnipeg, Man.) 24, no. 1 (Spr 2023): 6–14.
Will W. Adams & Nature-Psyche-Spirit (Yale Forum on Religion & Ecology) - October 2023
- Catholic Climate CovenantThe mission of Catholic Climate Covenant is to inspire and mobilize the U.S. Catholic community to care for creation and achieve climate justice through the lens of integral ecology.
- Evangelical Environmental NetworkThe Evangelical Environmental Network (EEN) is a ministry that educates, inspires, and mobilizes Christians in their effort to care for God's creation.
- Faith in PlaceWe champion justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion.
We work by coaching Green Teams of all faiths to create lasting change. We fight for those most impacted by environmental injustice. We believe the environmental movement must be rooted in justice. - Yale Forum on Religion and EcologyThe Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology is an international multireligious project contributing to a new academic field and an engaged moral force of religious environmentalism. With its conferences, publications, monthly newsletter, and website, it explores religious worldviews, texts, and ethics in order to contribute to environmental solutions along with science, policy, law, economics, and appropriate technology.
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