Diversity and dominion : dialogues in ecology, ethics, and theology / edited by Kyle S. Van Houtan and Michael S. Northcott ; foreword by Stanley Hauerwas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Van Houtan, Kyle Schuyler, 1974- editor.

Northcott, Michael S., editor.

Hauerwas, Stanley, 1940- writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human ecology--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Human ecology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 216 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Eugene, Oregon : Cascade Books, [2010]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book records a set of dialogues between scientists, theologians, and philosophers on what can be done to prevent a global slide into ecological collapse. It is a uniquely multidisciplinary book that exemplifies the kinds of cultural and scholarly dialogue urgently needed to address the threat to the earth represented by our super-industrial civilization. The authors debate the conventional account of nature conservation as protection from human activity. In contrast to standard accounts, they argue what is needed is a new relationship between human beings and the earth that recovers a primal respect for all things. This approach seeks to recover forgotten resources in ancient cultures and in the foundational narratives of Western civilization contained in the Bible and in the culture of classical Greece.

Contents:

Foreword / Stanley Hauerwas

Introduction / Kyle S. Van Houtan and Michael S. Northcott

Eyes wide shut / William H. Schlesinger

Science itself is only half-prophetic / Jeffrey D. Vickery

Censuring nature and critiquing God / Lisa Sideris

Wrestling with evolutionary biology and theology / Norman Christensen

A walk on the wild side : the idea of nature revisited / Michael Jackson

Good work / Kyle S. Van Houtan

Thanks for the dirt : gratitude as a basis for environmental action / Norman Wirzba

Biogeochemistry on the farm / William H. Schlesinger

The dominion lie : how millennial theology erodes creation care / Michael S. Northcott

A false dominion of control / Robert B. Jackson

Anti-imperial themes and care for living nature in early Christian art : the good shepherd as a model for Christian environmental ethics / Susan P. Bratton

Seeing through a Columbine flower / Makoto Fujimura

Nature and the nation-state : ambivalence, evil, and American environmentalism / Kyle S. Van Houtan and Michael S. Northcott

Conservative Christians and environmentalism, 1970-2005 / Seth Dowland and Brantley Gasaway

Biodiversity and the kingdom of God / Laura Yordy

Biodiversity and the ministry of reconciliation / Fred Van Dyke.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-211).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781621890898

1621890899