Science & Religion: Anthologies and Journal Articles

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Environmental ethics
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2003) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, author; Blackwell Publishing, publisher
Environmental ethics is theory and practice about appropriate concern for, values in, and duties regarding the natural world. By classical accounts, ethics is people relating to people in justice and love. Environmental ethics starts with human concerns for a quality environment, and some think this shapes the ethic from start to finish. Others hold that, beyond interhuman concerns, values are at stake when humans relate to animals, plants, species, and ecosystems. According to their vision, humans ought to find nature sometimes morally considerable in itself, and this turns ethics in new directions.
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The open secret: a new vision for natural theology - review
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2009) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, author; Blackwell Publishing, publisher
Book review of Alister McGrath's The Open Secret. Alister McGrath finds the search for a natural theology inconclusive, owing to a fundamental ambiguity of nature. Nevertheless, there is widespread hope that in, with, and under nature there is something sacred. By McGrath's account, one cannot understand nature except through Jesus' eyes. But does not Darwin open up human eyes as much as does Jesus? Christians do detect transcendence in this wonderland Earth; that witness of "baptized imagination" can complement Darwinian evolutionary accounts.