Dave Bookless Knihy

'Die Schönheit der Schöpfung ist Mitgift und Verpflichtung zugleich.'§Dominik Klenk§§Unser Planet leidet. Unsere Umwelt verschmutzt.§Wir wissen das, aber wir tun wenig. Warum?§Orientierung ist eben keine Bildungsfrage, sondern ein Beziehungsgeschehen. 'Mittendrin' im Beziehungsdreieck Gott - Mensch - Schöpfung liegt der tiefere Ansatz für eine Welt mit Zukunft für unsere Kinder.§§Im Nachdenken über das Dreieck Gott - Mensch - Natur werden immer nur die Anliegen der Menschen und ihre Beziehung zu Gott in den Mittelpunkt gestellt. Dieses Buch aber richtet den Fokus auf die uns umgebende Lebenswelt der Natur, die ebenfalls in Beziehung zum Schöpfer steht und ihre Rechte einfordert. So befreit das Buch aus einer auf uns allein bezogenen Sicht, wirkt aber auch entlastend. Wir lernen, unsere Umwelt zu lieben, weil auch Gott seine unendlich große Liebe in sie hineinsteckt. - Bücher, welche eine biblische Theologie so engagiert mit dem Umweltschutz verbinden, sind ganz selten. Allein schon deshalb ein Muss!

Meet 'the Bookless bunch', a very ordinary family who went green. When God challenged him over his attitude to the environment, Dave Bookless did a total rethink. This led to major changes, not only in his family's lifestyle but also eventually in his career: full-time involvement in the global A Rocha movement that aims to care for God's fragile world. But in one sense this book isn't about going green at all. It's a personal account of a life lived in relationship. It's about roots and belonging, suffering and healing, identity and meaning, faith and doubt. It's about how in God's economy nothing need be wasted. This is a story about the messiness that each human being wades through in every area of their lives, and about a God who can take all that seems most wasteful and useless, and recycle it into something of infinite worth.

I was in the act of throwing away my family's rubbish while holidaying on a beautiful island when I heard God speak. I could easily have missed it, but an inner whisper asked, "How do you think I feel about what you are doing to my world?" Since the day God challenged him, Dave Bookless has been on a mission: to share with others the compelling biblical case for caring for the planet God made for his glory and his people's enjoyment. This is not another book on green issues to make you feel guilty. The message is that there is hope. God can take your small and insignificant efforts and multiply them in his great plan. Dave takes us right into the heart of his family and shows how living simply, besides honouring God, can be an exciting adventure.