Environmental ethics: some challenges for Christians
Date
1993
Authors
Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, author
Society of Christian Ethics, publisher
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Abstract
The Christian ethics for persons, calling for love, justice, benevolence, and compassion does not transfer easily to duties toward wildlife, and the difficulties compound with an ethic toward plants, species, and ecosystems. Biblical faith began with a land ethic, a covenanted promised land, and Christians find a nature that is sacred and good in itself, regardless of its human utility. Earth is a planet with promise, nature is graced with creativity. Nature is also cruciform, death is perpetually redeemed with the renewal of life, and central themes in Christianity are congenial to an environmental ethic.
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Includes bibliographical references.
Keynote address at the Society of Christian Ethics, Annual National Conference, Savannah, GA, January 8-10, 1993.
Keynote address at the Society of Christian Ethics, Annual National Conference, Savannah, GA, January 8-10, 1993.
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plants
animals
species
sacred nature
Christians and environment
value in nature
nature as good in itself
cruciform nature
compassion
renewal of life