From Shenandoah to the mountain west
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2021-10-22
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Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, speaker
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Holmes Rolston recalls his life story founding environmental ethics. He was born in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, with mountains on his skyline and fields, creeks, and rivers as his playground. His elders loved gospel and landscape, gifts of God. Moving to a city, he excelled in school, and studied physics and mathematics, theology, and philosophy of science. He got lost in the stars, loved natural history, and rejoiced in abundant life persisting in the midst of its perpetual perishing. He discovered natural values in his storied residence in the Appalachians. He became the father of environmental ethics at Colorado State University. Earth is a promised land, a wonderland planet, in which one can glimpse divinity.
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This is a Rolston presentation at the Yosemite/Zoom Author Symposium, on Virtues, Vice, and Ecoflourishing: Multidisciplinary Christian Perspectives, October 21-24, 2021, held near Yosemite National Park. Rolston gave this presentation on Friday, October 22. His talk is followed by a response by Kelli Hata, a student at Fresno Pacific University, and a discussion with numerous other conference authors and participants.
Introduction by Nathan Carson and respondent Kelli Hata.
Introduction by Nathan Carson and respondent Kelli Hata.
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Shenandoah Valley
gospel
landscape
physics
mathematics
natural history
Colorado State University
abundant life
environmental ethics
storied residence