Environmental Justice and Climate Change

Assessing Pope Benedict XVI's Ecological Vision for the Catholic Church in the United States
Herausgeber: Schaefer, Jame; Winright, Tobias

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Produktbeschreibung

Environmental Justice and Climate Change: Assessing Pope Benedict XVI's Ecological Vision for the Catholic Church in the United States provides the most thorough theological treatment available on Benedict XVI's statements on human responsibility for addressing environmental degradation. Contributors include lay, ordained, and religious Catholic theologians, a philosopher, and bishops highlighting the contributions Pope Emeritus Benedict has made to Catholic teaching while offering fruitful directions for advancing concern about ongoing threats to the integrity of Earth.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 662g
• ISBN-13: 9780739183809
• ISBN-10: 073918380X
• Artikelnr.: 39339173

Autorenporträt

Jame Schaefer is associate professor of systematic theology and ethics at Marquette University. Her recent publications include Theological Foundations for Environmental Ethics: Reconstructing Patristic and Medieval Concepts and Confronting the Climate Crisis: Catholic Theological Perspectives. Tobias Winright is associate professor of theological ethics at Saint Louis University. He is the editor of Green Discipleship: Catholic Theological Ethics and the Environment, and co-editor of Violence, Transformation, and the Sacred.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: Message on the 2010 World Day of Peace: "If you want to cultivate
peace, protect creation" Pope Benedict XVI Introduction: Celebrating and
Advancing Magisterial Discourse on the Ecological Crisis Jame Schaefer Part
I. Human and Natural Ecology/Human Life and Dignity Chapter 1: Bonaventure
in Benedict: Franciscan Wisdom for Human Ecology Keith Douglas Warner
Chapter 2: If You Want Responsibility, Build Relationship: A Personalist
Approach to Benedict XVI's Environmental Vision Mary A. Ashley Chapter 3:
Natural Law and the Natural Environment: Pope Benedict XVI's Vision Beyond
Utilitarianism and Deontology Michael Baur Part II. Solidarity, Justice,
Poverty, and the Common Good Chapter 4: Human, Social, and Natural Ecology:
Three Ecologies, One Cosmology, and the Common Good Scott G. Hefelfinger
Chapter 5: Commodifying Creation? Pope Benedict XVI's Vision of the Goods
of Creation Intended for All Christiana Z. Peppard Chapter 6: The Grammar
of Creation: Agriculture in the Thought of Pope Benedict XVI Matthew Whelan
Part III. The Sacramentality of Creation Chapter 7: The Way of Wisdom:
"Keep hold of instruction; do not let go; guard her, for she is your life"
(Prov 3:14) Elizabeth Groppe Chapter 8: The World as God's Icon: Creation,
Sacramentality, Liturgy Kevin W. Irwin Chapter 9: Pope Benedict XVI's
Cosmic Soteriology and the Advancement of Catechesis on the Environment
Jeremiah Vallery Part IV. Our Catholic Faith in Action Chapter 10:
Discernment of the Church and the Dynamics of the Climate Change Convention
John T. Brinkman Chapter 11: American Lifestyles and Structures of Sin: The
Practical Implications of Pope Benedict XVI's Ecological Vision for the
American Church David Cloutier Chapter 12: American Nature Writing As a
Critically-Appropriated Resource for Catholic Ecological Ethics Anselma
Dolcich-Ashley Appendix A: Keynote Address at the Catholic Consultation on
Environmental Justice and Climate Change The Most Reverend Bernard Unabali
Appendix B: Homily: Catholic Consultation on Environmental Justice and
Climate Change The Most Reverend Bishop Donald Kettler