2016/06/29

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Richard Heinberg

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Richard Heinberg
Heinberg discussing energy at University of Toronto, March 2013
Born	1950
Occupation	Writer, educator, environmentalist
Language	English
Nationality	USA
Ethnicity	USA
Genre	non-fiction
Subject	peak oil, resource depletion, sustainability
Notable works	The Party's Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality
Spouse	Janet Barocco
Website
www.richardheinberg.com

Richard Heinberg (born 1950) is anAmerican journalist and educator who has written extensively on energy, economic, andecological issues, including oil depletion. He is the author of thirteen books. He serves as the senior fellow at the Post Carbon Institute.

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Career

Heinberg, after two years in college and a period of personal study, became personal assistant to Immanuel Velikovsky in November 1979 and after Velikovsky's death assisted Mrs. Velikovsky editing manuscripts.^[1]^[2] He published his first book in 1989, Memories and Visions of Paradise: Exploring the Universal Myth of a Lost Golden Age,^[3] which was the result of ten years of study of worldmythology. An expanded second edition was published in 1995.^[4] He began publishing his alternative newsletter, the MuseLetter, in 1992. His next book was published in 1993:Celebrate the Solstice: Honoring the Earth's Seasonal Rhythms through Festival and Ceremony.^[5]

In June 1995, speaking to the International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations in Dayton, Ohio, Heinberg provided "A Primitivist Critique of Civilization" and discussed the ways in which "We are, it would seem, killing the planet."^[6]

His books from the later 1990s address the relationships between humanity and the natural world. In 1998, he began teaching atNew College of California. in the "Culture, Ecology and Sustainable Community" program, which he helped design. He remained a member of the Core Faculty until 2007, when the College closed its doors.

In 2003, Heinberg published The Party's Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies, one of the first full-length analyses on the issue of peak oil.

In 2004, Heinberg provided the closing address for the First US Conference on Peak Oil and Community Solutions. His title was "Beyond the Peak."

Heinberg in his garden in Santa Rosa, California. August 2011

In February 2007, Heinberg addressed the Committee on International Trade of the European Parliament and served as an advisor to the National Petroleum Council in its report to theU.S. Secretary of Energy on Peak Oil. In October 2007, theGreen Party of Aotearoa organised a speaking tour of New Zealand for Heinberg, which included a presentation in theBeehive theatrette within the New Zealand Parliamentbuilding.^[7]^[8] In 2008 he was a Mayor’s appointed member of the Oil Independent Oakland 2020 Task Force (Oakland, California),^[9] which was convened to chart a path for the city to dramatically reduce its petroleum dependence.

Heinberg is now the Senior Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute in Santa Rosa, California. He lives in Santa Rosa, California. He is also a violinist, illustrator, and book designer. He is married to Janet Barocco.

Heinberg has proposed an international protocol to peak oil management with the aim of reducing the impact of the arrival of the peak.^[10] The adoption of the Protocol would mean that oil-importing nations should deal to reduce their importations in an annual percentage, while exporting countries should deal to reduce their exportations in the same percentage. The Uppsala Protocol^[11] has been focused in a similar direction.

Heinberg is the editor of MuseLetter,^[12] which has been included in Utne Magazine’sannual list of Best Alternative Newsletters. He has appeared in the documentaries The End of Suburbia, The 11th Hour, Crude Impact, Oil, Smoke & Mirrors, Chasing God,What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire, The Great Squeeze, The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil, A Farm for the Future and Ripe For Change.

Heinberg is one of the more moderate commentators on peak oil (compared to others like James Howard Kunstler.^[13])

Publications

Memories and Visions of Paradise: Exploring the Universal Myth of a Lost Golden Age (1989; revised edition, 1995; British edition, 1990; Portuguese edition, 1991)
Celebrate the Solstice: Honoring the Earth’s Seasonal Rhythms through Festival and Ceremony (1993; Italian edition, 2002; Portuguese edition, 2002)
A New Covenant with Nature: Notes on the End of Civilization and the Renewal of Culture (1996; Portuguese edition, 1998) ISBN 978-0-8356-0746-9
Cloning the Buddha: The Moral Impact of Biotechnology (1999; Indian edition, 2001; Japanese edition, 2001; Chinese edition, 2001)
The Party's Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies (2003; British, Italian, German, Spanish, and Arabic editions, 2004–2005; revised North American edition, 2005; Spanish edition, 2007; French edition, 2008 German Edition)
Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World (ISBN 9780865715103) (2004; British edition 2005)
The Oil Depletion Protocol: A Plan to Avert Oil Wars, Terrorism and Economic Collapse (2006, ISBN 978-0-86571-563-9),
Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines (2007, ISBN 978-0-86571-598-1).
Blackout: Coal, Climate, and the Last Energy Crisis (June, 2009). (ISBN 9780865716568)
The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st Century’s Sustainability Crises], edited by Richard Heinberg & Daniel Lerch (2010) ISBN 978-0-9709500-6-2
The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality, (2011) ISBN 978-0-86571-695-7
Snake Oil: How Fracking's False Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future (2013)ISBN 978-0976751090
Afterburn: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels (2015) ISBN 978-0865717886
Our Renewable Future: Laying the Path for One Hundred Percent Clean Energy (2016) ISBN 978-1610917797, co-authored by Richard Heinberg and David Fridley

References

Contributors. Kronos VI(2), Winter 1981.
Sammer, Jan. The Velikovsky Archive.Aeon VI(2), Dec. 2001.
Los Angeles, Calif.: Tarcher. 282 pp. ISBN 0-87477-515-9.
Wheaton, Ill,: Quest Books. 294 pp. ISBN 978-0-8356-0716-2.
Wheaton, Ill.: Quest Books. 199 pp. ISBN 0-8356-0693-7.
Heinberg, Richard (June 15, 1995). "The Primitivist Critique of Civilization". A paper presented at the 24th annual meeting of the International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations atWright State University, Dayton, Ohio,. Retrieved June 9, 2012.
"Peak oil educator to visit New Zealand"(Press release). Green Party. 4 October 2007. Retrieved 9 June 2012.
Fitzsimons, Jeanette (11 October 2007)."Questions for Oral Answer — Questions to Ministers, Questions to Members". New Zealand Parliament. Retrieved June 9,2012.
"Oil Independent Oakland (OIO) By 2020 Task Force". 2008. Archived from the original on 2013-05-25. Retrieved9 September 2013.
Oil Depletion Protocol
Protocol of Uppsala
http://heinberg.wordpress.com/
http://kunstler.com/blog/

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related toRichard Heinberg.

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Post Carbon Institute
Heinberg's personal website
Richard Heinberg at the Internet Movie Database
Richard Heinberg at Seoul Youth Hub Conference 2013, Reshaping the Way We Live
- Richard Heinberg's keynote speech at Seoul Youth Hub Conference(2013) Seoul, South Korea
2008 interview on Global Public Media Heinberg on Post Carbon Institute's Green New Deal
OneWorldTV video interviews with Richard Heinberg:
- Richard Heinberg Counters Big Energy PR Hype, July 13, 2012
- “Don't worry! There's Plenty of Oil” (only there isn't), Aug 29, 2012
Interview: (October 21, 2006) The Oil Depletion Protocol
Interview, July 2006
Oil, Smoke & Mirrors Contains interviews with Heinberg discussing peak oil.
Critique of CivilizationPaper presented at the 24th annual meeting of the International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations, June 15, 1995.
Peak Everything lecture onYouTube
BLIND SPOT Documentary, Official Website.
The End of Growth: 2011 interview with Heinberg on YouTube on the Keiser Report

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2016/06/28

Quest for the Living God: Mapping Frontiers in the Theology of God - Kindle edition by Elizabeth A. Johnson. Religion & Spirituality Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.

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"In this wonderful, lucid, and challenging book, Elizabeth Johnson not only maps the frontiers of theology but critiques, synthesizes, and appropriates a range of insights to help us fruitfully and humbly expand our grasp of the Loving Mystery who is God." - M. Shawn Copeland, Associate Professor of Theology, Boston College, and past president of the Catholic Theological Society of America

"As Elizabeth Johnson notes, Karl Rahner had an abiding concern that much of Christian theology presented God 'unworthy of belief.' Here Johnson has given us a God truly worthy of our belief, fidelity, and love. Every word breathes with the author's own deep love of God, the church, and the world. Combining her usual theological sophistication with the practical wisdom that comes from a life-long commitment to the life of faith, this is theology as it should be." - Roberto S. Goizueta, Associate Professor of Theology, Boston College, and past president of the Catholic Theological Society of America

"It is a great act of generosity...that such an accomplished scholar would pause in her career-long project to share with us her considerable gifts as a teacher, as she does in her new book...Quest for the Living God is an invitation to its readers to explore some of our best contemporary reflections on the experience of God and topics surrounding the doctrine of God. Written in clear and accessible prose, the book avoids the technical language that peppers scholarly works intended for a professional audience, and takes pains to guide a theologically inexperienced reader through all the issues that inform a particular interpretive concern...It is rare that one finds a book that will appeal to all sorts of audiences, but Quest for the Living God is one. Professional theologians, undergraduate students and literate people of faith will enjoy all that this engaging work has to offer." -John E. Thiel, America, January 21-28, 2008

(John E. Thiel)

"In her new book, Quest for the Living God, she offers a compelling case for several important movements in modern Christian thought. She begins with Karl Rahner's seminal investigations in the 1930s before moving on to various contemporary Christian theologies-and, finally, to the complex connections being forged between Christianity and other world religions...with her usual clarity and precision...It is just such orthodoxy, unhistorical and disembodied, that fails to reach the living God these theologians seek to recover. Elizabeth Johnson's careful analysis reminds us how much we miss when dead birds fall from the pulpit." - Dennis O'Brien, Commonweal, April 11, 2008

(Dennis O'Brien)

"This is another splendid book by Elizabeth A. Johnson...Written primarily for intelligent lay folk, the engaging style of this review of the last 50 years of Christian theology contains Johnson's own insights couched in smooth, economic and yet elegant language with an occasional zinger that sums up a movement or an insight. Johnson's table of contents is a reliable outline of her book; a real help for teachers or study groups who use The Quest for the Living God as I propose to do in an upper level undergraduate research seminar this fall...Johnson lays out the richness of inter-religious dialogues and the urgency of attending to all God's offspring, including the planet and its beautiful burden of living creatures of the sea, the skies, the earth. Theologians give them voices, point to the living Spirit of God creating an evolving world so heedlessly and recklessly squandered by its human users and abusers. The last chapter is a wonder...Johnson's epilogue invites readers to continue the quest for the transcendent and immanent God who invites our conversations and exceeds all we can say." - Jill Raitt, Fontbonne University, Catholic Books Review (http://catholicbooksreview.org)

(Jill Raitt)

"With her characteristic generosity, Johnson surveys a range of new theological currents in the doctrine of God, showing the context in which each idea arose, the theological reasoning behind it, and its implications for spiritual and practical life. Included are chapters on transcendental, political, liberation, feminist, black, Hispanic, interreligious, and ecological theologies, followed by a chapter of trinitarian reflections. Suggestions for further reading conclude each chapter." - Amy Plantinga Pauw, Christian Century, May 6, 2008 (Amy Plantinga Pauw)

"Elizabeth Johnson's Quest for the Living God extends her generous intellectual hospitality to an intriguing array of contemporary Christian doctrines of God, welcoming voices from all over the theological map and providing a common table around which they may hear one another out and be heard with respect. In this spirit, she concludes by leaving the door open rather than closing it with a rash of final pronouncements." - Jenn Cavanaugh, Parabola, Summer 2008 (Jenn Cavanaugh)

"Johnson succeeds in emphasizing the mystery of God and the insatiability of the human quest for encountering that mystery. She illustrates this most effectively by highlighting the diversity of perspectives that fail to exhaust the mystery of God. Perhaps even more impressive than its comprehensiveness is the book's accessibility. Johnson takes the most complex theological themes, such as divine agency and the nature of the Trinity, and makes them intelligible for an introductory level audience. I look forward to using this text in an undergraduate context, trusting that students will receive a substantive and inspiring introduction to the theologies of God." - Erin Brigham, Anglican Theological Review, Fall 2008 (Erin Brigham Anglican Theological Review)

"Johnson speaks of the quest for the living God using the Scripture text 'Like a dry and arid land so does my soul long for you, My God.' St. Augustine experiences this in his quest for God as he stated in his confessions: 'You breathed your fragrance on me; I drew in breath and now I pant for you. I tasted you, now I hunger and thirst for more.' This is the experience one might have from this book." — Benedictines

(Janelle Maes, OSB)

"This is one of the most important and provocative books on theology to have appeared in the U.S. since Vatican II... I challenge every thinking Christian to read chapter one-they will be so energized that they will rush to go through the whole book." —Joseph Cunneen, The American Catholic (Joseph Cunneen American Catholic Studies)

(Sanford Lakoff)

"In her new book, Quest for the Living God, she offers a compelling case for several important movements in modern Christian thought. She begins with Karl Rahner's seminal investigations in the 1930s before moving on to various contemporary Christian theologies-and, finally, to the complex connections being forged between Christianity and other world religions…with her usual clarity and precision…It is just such orthodoxy, unhistorical and disembodied, that fails to reach the living God these theologians seek to recover. Elizabeth Johnson's careful analysis reminds us how much we miss when dead birds fall from the pulpit." - Dennis O'Brien, Commonweal, April 11, 2008

(Sanford Lakoff)

"This is another splendid book by Elizabeth A. Johnson…Written primarily for intelligent lay folk, the engaging style of this review of the last 50 years of Christian theology contains Johnson’s own insights couched in smooth, economic and yet elegant language with an occasional zinger that sums up a movement or an insight. Johnson’s table of contents is a reliable outline of her book; a real help for teachers or study groups who use The Quest for the Living God as I propose to do in an upper level undergraduate research seminar this fall…Johnson lays out the richness of inter-religious dialogues and the urgency of attending to all God’s offspring, including the planet and its beautiful burden of living creatures of the sea, the skies, the earth. Theologians give them voices, point to the living Spirit of God creating an evolving world so heedlessly and recklessly squandered by its human users and abusers. The last chapter is a wonder…Johnson’s epilogue invites readers to continue the quest for the transcendent and immanent God who invites our conversations and exceeds all we can say." - Jill Raitt, Fontbonne University, Catholic Books Review (http://catholicbooksreview.org)

(Sanford Lakoff)

"With her characteristic generosity, Johnson surveys a range of new theological currents in the doctrine of God, showing the context in which each idea arose, the theological reasoning behind it, and its implications for spiritual and practical life. Included are chapters on transcendental, political, liberation, feminist, black, Hispanic, interreligious, and ecological theologies, followed by a chapter of trinitarian reflections. Suggestions for further reading conclude each chapter." - Amy Plantinga Pauw, Christian Century, May 6, 2008 (Sanford Lakoff)

“Elizabeth Johnson’s Quest for the Living God extends her generous intellectual hospitality to an intriguing array of contemporary Christian doctrines of God, welcoming voices from all over the theological map and providing a common table around which they may hear one another out and be heard with respect. In this spirit, she concludes by leaving the door open rather than closing it with a rash of final pronouncements.” - Jenn Cavanaugh, Parabola, Summer 2008 (Sanford Lakoff)

“Johnson succeeds in emphasizing the mystery of God and the insatiability of the human quest for encountering that mystery. She illustrates this most effectively by highlighting the diversity of perspectives that fail to exhaust the mystery of God. Perhaps even more impressive than its comprehensiveness is the book’s accessibility. Johnson takes the most complex theological themes, such as divine agency and the nature of the Trinity, and makes them intelligible for an introductory level audience. I look forward to using this text in an undergraduate context, trusting that students will receive a substantive and inspiring introduction to the theologies of God.” - Erin Brigham, Anglican Theological Review, Fall 2008 (Sanford Lakoff Anglican Theological Review)

(Sanford Lakoff)

"This is one of the most important and provocative books on theology to have appeared in the U.S. since Vatican II... I challenge every thinking Christian to read chapter one-they will be so energized that they will rush to go through the whole book." —Joseph Cunneen, The American Catholic (Sanford Lakoff American Catholic Studies)

About the Author

Elizabeth A. Johnson, C.S.J., is distinguished Professor of Theology at Fordham University. She has received numerous awards, including the Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion for She Who Is (1993), the American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion for Friends of God and Prophets (1999), and the Book Award of the College Theology Society for Truly Our Sister (2004). She was also the recipient of the John Courtney Murray Award of the Catholic Theological Society of America, the Jerome Award of the Catholic Library Association, and the Monika K. Hellwig Award of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities.

2016/06/27

The Heart of Christianity | BRev

The Heart of Christianity | Book Reviews | Books | Spirituality & Practice

The Heart of Christianity

Rediscovering a Life of Faith

By Marcus J. Borg

A bellwether work that sets out in cogent, compassionate, and imaginative terms the direction of the Christian way in difficult times.

Book Review by Frederic and Mary Ann

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Progressive Christians have been waiting a long time for a bellwether volume that sets out in cogent, compassionate, and imaginative terms the direction of the faith in difficult times. Episcopal Bishop John Shelby Spong opened the gate with his book A New Christianity for a New World. Marcus Borg, Hundere Distinguished Professor of Religion and Culture at Oregon State University, takes us all the way home. Borrowing a phrase from Kenneth Burke, he suggests that discerning the heart of Christianity involves us in an "unending dialogue." This ambitious, substantive, and boldly political resource establishes the terms for a conversation that will no doubt continue for years.

In the first three chapters, Borg lays out the conflict within Christendom between those who cling to an earlier paradigm, with its emphasis upon faith as believing, requirements and rewards, and the afterlife, and those who align themselves with an emerging paradigm of Christian life as relational and transformational. He discusses the essential differences between the two camps vis-à-vis the Bible (the heart of tradition), God (the heart of reality), and Jesus (the heart of God).

Before we can relax into this clearly delineated situation, Borg surprises us, calling on mainline Christians to reclaim the Biblical term of being "born again" as a way of drawing closer to their more conservative brothers and sisters. He sees this "rich and comprehensive notion" as a spiritual one which involves "becoming conscious of and intentional about a deepening relationship with God." Another dimension of being born again is taking seriously the call to be just and to care for the poor and the downtrodden. "Seeing the political passion of the Bible calls us to a politically engaged spirituality," he writes, and with great clarity and courage, he suggests concrete consciousness-raising projects that churches can undertake to protest the domination systems that harm the most vulnerable among us — widows, orphans, the poor, and the marginalized.

In the most creative and visionary chapter, "Open Hearts and Thin Places," Borg mines the many meanings of heart with quotations from the Hebrew Bible and Christian tradition, concluding it is "the spiritual center of the total self." We need to be born again because we have closed hearts. In contrast, an open heart can sense the movements of grace through what Borg calls the "thin places" (a Celtic term) in our lives.

Another important element in Borg's imagining of the Christian way is practice, which he defines as "the formation of Christian identity." Churches are just beginning to respond to this after centuries of neglecting the resources of the desert fathers and mothers, the mystics, the monastics, and other mentors of daily practice. Now there is much talk about disciplines of prayer, more emphasis upon the spiritual practices of hospitality and compassion, and new interest in liturgical renewal in a variety of forms. The author concludes: "In my judgment, the single most important practice is to be part of a congregation that nourishes you even as it stretches you."

Finally, Borg delineates some of the challenges of being Christian in an age of pluralism. "When Christianity is seen as one of the great religions of the world, as one of the classic forms of the primordial tradition, as a remarkable sacrament of the sacred, it has great credibility. But when Christianity claims to be the one true religion, it loses much of its credibility." Although Borg does not mention it, the real meeting point between all the world's religions is the heart and the spiritual practices of love, compassion, kindness, and hospitality. Hopefully, Christian congregations will seize the moment and make this watershed work the focus of their adult education programs and small study circles.

Recommended Books » Marcus J. Borg official website

Recommended Books

Dr. Borg was often asked for his recommendations for books that were well-suited to adult study groups. Here is a list of the books that he often commended to readers.

Books by Dr. Marcus Borg

Reading the Bible Again
The Heart of Christianity
Jesus: Uncovering the Life, Teachings and Relevance of a Religious Revolutionary
The God We Never Knew
Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time, with John Dominic Crossan
The Last Week
The First Christmas, with N.T. Wright
The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions.

Books by other authors
In no particular order:

The Luminous Web.
by Barbara Brown Taylor
Brief (about 100 pages) and stylistically elegant book about the relationship between science and religion.

Shantung Compound.
by Langdon Gilkey
One of Borg’s favorite “teaching” books. A case study of human nature, politics, and religion. A great read.

Who Was Jesus?
by John Dominic Crossan
The most readable of his books.

God and Empire
by John Dominic Crossan
Also a very readable book – and important and provocative.

Excavating Jesus
by John Dominic Crossan, with Jonathan Reed
A compelling blend of Jesus scholarship and archeology.

Jesus and Non-Violence
by Walter Wink
Brief, striking, provocative.

Memories of God.
by Roberta Bondi
Growing up with God and moving beyond childhood understandings to a mature theology.

The Practicing Congregation and
Christianity for the Rest of Us.
by Diana Butler Bass
Important books about the revitalization of mainline congregations.

Sabbath.
by Wayne Muller
A life-giving book about recovering Sabbath.

Buddha
by Karen Armstrong
The most readable of her books. A fascinating account of the life of the Buddha and his teachings, with frequent connections to Christian notions.

The Prophetic Imagination
by Walter Brueggemann
Important and accessible.

Why Religion Matters
by Huston Smith

The World’s Religions
by Huston Smith
The most readable and most interesting introduction to the world’s major religions.

A New Religious America
by Diana Eck
Religious pluralism in America.

Theologies of Religions
by Paul Knitter
Insightful account of Christian theologies of religious pluralism.

Books by John Shelby Spong.

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With such bestsellers as A History of God and Islam, Karen Armstrong has consistently delivered ?penetrating, readable, and prescient? (The New York Times) works that have lucidly engaged a wide range of religions and religious issues.

In Buddha she turns to a figure whose thought is still reverberating throughout the world 2,500 years after his death. Many know the Buddha only from seeing countless serene, iconic images. But what of the man himself and the world he lived in? What did he actually do in his roughly eighty years on earth that spawned one of the greatest religions in world history? Armstrong tackles these questions and more by examining the life and times of the Buddha in this engrossing philosophical biography. Against the tumultuous cultural background of his world, she blends history, philosophy, mythology, and biography to create a compelling and illuminating portrait of a man whose awakening continues to inspire millions.

2016/06/29