Volume 13, Issue 2, June 2000

This article expounds the principles of interpretation and praxis that have inspired the Earth Bible project. It first sets out a general hermeneutic of ecojustice, showing how it embodies and applies to the Earth the principles of suspicion and retrieval currently operative in biblical interpretation from a social justice and feminist standpoint. The paper then expounds the six principles of an ecojustice hermeneutic: the principles of intrinsic worth, interconnected-ness, voice, resistance, purpose, and mutual custodianship. In each case the paper shows how inter-pretation from an ecojustice standpoint requires radical reassessment in the interpretation of familiar texts and poses challenges to theology.