Rebecca Copeland

Rebecca Copeland, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), works in theology, ethics, and the intersection of religion and ecology, focusing primarily on Christian traditions. Her research and teaching interests revolve around the ways that classical Christian doctrines can be reconstructed in response to what we learn about the world through environmental studies, as well as how such doctrines can influence environmental activism.

In other words, she seeks to read theology ecologically, and read the environment theologically. Her first book, Created Being: Expanding Creedal Christology (Baylor University Press), posited that the theological significance of the incarnation is that the Word became a creature, thus developing a more inclusive understanding of Christ’s person and work. Her current project, Entangled Being: Unoriginal Sin and Wicked Problems, examines how understandings of sin might be reimagined in conversation with systemic problems such as climate change and environmental racism.

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