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Saving creation: faith shaping environmental policy

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dc.contributor.authorRolston, Holmes, 1932-, author
dc.contributor.authorHarvard Law School, publisher
dc.coverage.spatialUnited States
dc.coverage.spatialEurope
dc.date.accessioned2007-01-03T04:32:31Z
dc.date.available2007-01-03T04:32:31Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references.
dc.description.abstractReligious faith can make a unique contribution to environmental policy. Typically, legislators might expect to formulate a science-based environmental policy. But scientific reasoning is able to offer only partial and value-free guidance. Science, by its very nature, cannot offer enough guidance for the challenges of contemporary environmental policy. Religious faith and religious communities can, and already have begun to, offer precisely what science lacks: a value-laden, unified understanding of creation, humankind, and our obligations as stewards of the Earth. I make this case here by assessing the religious traditions in the United States and Europe, particularly Western monotheism, especially Christianity.
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dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationRolston, Holmes, III, Saving Creation: Faith Shaping Environmental Policy, Harvard Law and Policy Review 4 (2010): 121-148.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10217/37706
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
dc.relation.ispartofEnvironmental Ethics: Anthologies and Journal Articles
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dc.subjectreligion
dc.subjectecology
dc.subjecthealth
dc.subjectquality of life
dc.subjectfaith
dc.subjectNational Environmental Policy Act
dc.subjectscience
dc.subjectmanagement
dc.subjectsustainability
dc.subject.lcshChristianity
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