The environment and Christian ethics
This book is about the extent, origins and causes of the environmental crisis. Dr Northcott argues that Christianity has lost the biblical awareness of the inter-connectedness of all life. He shows how Christian theologians and believers might recover a more ecologically friendly belief system and l...
| Subtitles: | The Environment & Christian Ethics |
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
1996.
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| In: | Year: 1996 |
| Series/Journal: | New studies in Christian ethics
10 |
| Further subjects: | B
Human ecology ; Religious aspects ; Christianity
B Environmental Ethics B Human Ecology Religious aspects Christianity B Ecology ; Moral and ethical aspects B Ecology Moral and ethical aspects B Christian Ethics |
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| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: 9780521444811 |
| Summary: | This book is about the extent, origins and causes of the environmental crisis. Dr Northcott argues that Christianity has lost the biblical awareness of the inter-connectedness of all life. He shows how Christian theologians and believers might recover a more ecologically friendly belief system and life style. The author provides an important corrective to secular approaches to environmental ethics, including utilitarian individualism, animal rights theories and deep ecology. He contends that neither the stewardship tradition, nor the panentheist or process ecological theologies have successfully mobilised the Christian tradition. He demonstrates that the Hebrew Bible contains an ecological message which is close to the traditions of many primal and indigenous peoples and which provides an important corrective to instrumental attitudes to nature in much modern philosophy and Christian ethics. Frogs, floods and famines -- The origins of the environmental crisis -- The turn to nature -- The flowering of ecotheology -- The order of creation -- Creation, redemption and natural law ethics -- Natural law and ecological society |
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| Item Description: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) |
| ISBN: | 0511557477 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511557477 |