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Loving nature: Christian environmental ethics

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dc.contributor.authorRolston, Holmes, 1932-, author
dc.contributor.authorGeorgetown University Press, publisher
dc.date.accessioned2017-06-20T16:51:54Z
dc.date.available2017-06-20T16:51:54Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references (pages 330-331).
dc.description.abstractThe two great commandments are to love God and neighbor; but ought we to love a loveless nature? Agape seems nowhere there to be found. Most of the sensibilities we nourish in civilized beings--being fair or kind, respect for rights--are not there in the wild. Is any sense of "love gone wild" plausible? The better category might be intrinsic values found in creation, to which we are drawn in respect and care. Loving the land is a central theme in Hebrew faith, a land for which God cares. In the landscape surrounding him Jesus found ample evidence of the presence of God. In Genesis, God enjoys biodiversity. Words translated as "wilderness" occur nearly 300 times in the Bible. Jesus is regularly found returning to the wilderness. Anciently Palestine was a promised land. Today the call is to see Earth as a planet with promise, destined for abundant life.
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dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationRolston, Holmes, 1932-, Loving Nature: Christian Environmental Ethics, Simmons, Frederick V. with Brian C. Sorrells, editors. Love and Christian Ethics: Tradition, Theory, and Society, 313-331. Washington: Georgetown University Press, 2016.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10217/181774
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
dc.relation.ispartofScience & Religion: Anthologies and Journal Articles
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dc.subjectlove
dc.subjectnature
dc.subjectculture
dc.subjectagape
dc.subjectphilea
dc.subjecteros
dc.subjectwilderness
dc.subjectlandscape
dc.subjectpromised land
dc.subjectIsrael
dc.subjectJesus
dc.subjectbiodiversity
dc.subjectcreation
dc.subjectplanet with promise
dc.subjectEarth
dc.titleLoving nature: Christian environmental ethics
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