Browsing by Author "Taiwan Ecological Stewardship Association, publisher"

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圣经与生态学
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2007) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-2025, author; Taiwan Ecological Stewardship Association, publisher
The Bible is not a book of ecology. It does recommend a human ecology, accentuating life in justice and love that makes possible a good (righteous), long (sustainable) life in a promised, promising land. Contemporary readers encounter claims about how to value nature, the earthen genesis with intrinsic goodness, blessed by God. That vision is biocentric, anthropocentric, and theocentric. The Hebrew scriptures can be a catalyst in our ecological crisis.
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温柔的使命: 生態, 信仰, 生活的結合
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2016) Lin, Yiren, author; Chen, Tzu-Mei, author; Taiwan Ecological Stewardship Association, publisher
Article 1: In his sermon preached June 5, 2016, at the Ho-Ping Church in Taipei, Rolston emphasized that, like ancient Israel, all peoples today reside on lands with promise, promised lands. Taiwan was long known as Formosa, the beautiful island. Americans sing "America, the Beautiful." Earth is a planet with great promise; such planets are rare in the universe. The main theme of ecological ethics is homing. We are all "Earth gardeners" who have a divine destiny to "care for the Earth," our home planet.
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环境伦理学的种类
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2007) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-2025, author; Taiwan Ecological Stewardship Association, publisher
Twelve types of environmental ethics: 1. Humanistic and naturalistic ethics. 2. A triangular affair: humans, animals, and a land ethic. 3. Biocentrism and respect for life. 4. Deep ecology. 5. Theology and the environment. 6. Expanding communities, concentric circles. 7. Axiological environmental ethics: intrinsic, instrumental, and ecosystemic values. 8. Political ecology and green politics. 9. Sustainable development and sustainable biosphere. 10. Bioregionalism. 11. Ecofeminism. 12. Pluralism, postmodernism, and a sense of place. Variously constructed kinds of environmental ethics need to join as all humans see themselves as Earthlings, with their home planet as a responsibility.
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环境讲章
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2007) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-2025, author; Taiwan Ecological Stewardship Association, publisher
Biblical faith originated with a land ethic. Within the covenant, keeping the commandments, the Hebrew people entered a promised land. Nature is the creative, generative powers on Earth. Spirit is the animating principle that raises up life from the ground. Christian citizens ought to join others shaping a public environmental ethic. Earth is promised planet, planet with promise, sacred, holy ground.
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生命之河: 过去，现今，未来
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2007) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-2025, author; Taiwan Ecological Stewardship Association, publisher
A river of life is imagery that can launch critical reflection. Life is a current, a naturally impelled flow that is energetically maintained over time. Life is a continuous and ceaseless stream that transcends the individual. In this processive on rolling we can find a confluence of the actual and the potential, the self and the other, the human and the natural, the present and the historical, and the is and the ought.
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看顾自然: 从事实到价值，从尊敬到尊崇
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2007) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-2025, author; Taiwan Ecological Stewardship Association, publisher
Despite the classical prohibition of moving from fact to value, encounter with the biodiversity and plenitude of being in evolutionary natural history moves us to respect life, even to reverence it. Darwinian accounts are value-laden and necessary for understanding life at the same time that Darwinian theory fails to provide sufficient cause for the historically developing diversity and increasing complexity on Earth. Earth is a providing ground; matter and energy on Earth support life, but distinctive to life is information coded in the genetic molecules that superintends this matter-energy. Life is generated and regenerated in struggle, persists in its perishing. Such life is also a gift; nature is grace. Biologists and theologians join in celebrating and conserving the genesis on Earth, awed in their encounter with this creativity that characterizes our home planet.
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逾越节之花
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2007) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-2025, author; Taiwan Ecological Stewardship Association, publisher
The Pasqueflower surviving through winter, blooming at the Pasque, Easter, offers a glimpse of the precocious exuberance of life, a token of the covenant of life to continue in beauty despite the wintry storms. To pause at first encountering it in spring is to find a moment of truth, a moment of memory and promise. Let winters come, life will flower on as long as Earth shall last.