Environmental ethics, ecological theology, and natural selection

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The work Environmental ethics, ecological theology, and natural selection represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries.

Label

Environmental ethics, ecological theology, and natural selection

Statement of responsibility

Lisa H. Sideris

Creator

• Sideris, Lisa H

Contributor

• ebrary, Inc

Subject

• Environmental ethics
• Human Ecology -- Religious Aspects
• Human ecology -- Religious aspects
• Natural Selection
• Natural selection
• Environmental Ethics

Language

eng

Summary

Annotation

Member of

• Columbia contemporary American religion series

Cataloging source

CaPaEBR

Dewey number

179/.1

LC call number

GE42

LC item number

.S43 2003eb

Series statement

Columbia series in science and religion

Summary expansion

In the last few decades, religious and secular thinkers have tackled the world's escalating environmental crisis by attempting to develop an ecological ethic that is both scientifically accurate and free of human-centered preconceptions. This groundbreaking study shows that many of these environmental ethicists continue to model their positions on romantic, pre-Darwinian concepts that disregard the predatory and cruelly competitive realities of the natural world. Examining the work of such influential thinkers as James Gustafson, Sallie McFague, Rosemary Radford Ruether, John Cobb, Peter Singer, and Holmes Rolston, Sideris proposes a more realistic ethic that combines evolutionary theory with theological insight, advocates a minimally interventionist stance toward nature, and values the processes over the products of the natural world