Ecoflourishing and Virtue (eBook, ePUB)

Christian Perspectives Across the Disciplines
Redaktion: Bouma-Prediger, Steven; Carson, Nathan

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book brings together the interdisciplinary reflections of Christian scholars and poets, to explore how ecological virtues can foster the flourishing of our home planet in the face of unprecedented environmental change and devastation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000999389
• Artikelnr.: 69095891

Autorenporträt

Steven Bouma-Prediger is Professor of Religion at Hope College in Michigan, USA. He is best known for his book - For the Beauty of the Earth: A Christian Vision for Creation Care and his most recent book Earthkeeping and Character: Exploring A Christian Ecological Virtue Ethic. At Hope he oversees the Environmental Studies program and co-chairs the Campus Sustainability Advisory Committee. Nathan P. Carson is Associate Professor and Program Director of Philosophy at Fresno Pacific University in Fresno, California, USA, directing also its Sierra Program which integrates wilderness, conservation, and community with environmentally thematized courses. His philosophical publications have appeared in Dao, Philosophy and Literature, International Philosophical Quarterly, History of Philosophy Quarterly, and Journal of Chinese Philosophy.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword; Introduction; I. Gifts in Retrospection: Mentors in
Ecoflourishing - 1 From Shenandoah to the Mountain West; 2 Crossing Lehigh
Gap: Discerning Christian Contributions and Misdirection in Wilderness
Preservation; 3 Beholding Earth through the Eye of its Maker; 4 Prophets
and Poets: The Capture of the Creative Vision; 5 A Table and a Planet: From
Hearthkeeping to Earthkeeping; II. Grounding Narratives of Ecoflourishing
and Virtue: Stories Worth Telling - 6 When Good Christians Destroy the
Earth: The Virtue of Limits and the Limits of Virtue; 7 "Ecoflourishing"
and Story: Fantasy, Science Fiction and Hope; 8 'I all-creation sing':
Christina Rossetti's Cosmic Liturgy and Challenge to Anthropocentrism; 9
John Muir, Deep Time, and the Hope of Ecoflourishing; III. Biblical and
Theological Soundings: Ecological Ruin, Restoration, and Community Virtues
- 10 Subverting Metaphor, Transforming Identity: An Eco-Anthropological
Analysis of Job's Shift from Ruler to Member of the Creation Community; 11
Paul, Generosity, and Ecological Flourishing; 12 Ecoflourishing: Life,
Death and Natural Disasters; IV. Global Ecoflourishing: Biospheric,
Intercultural, and Interreligious - 13 Interdisciplinary Voices of the
Ecoflourishing 'Glocal' Dialogue from Non-Western Cultural and Literary
Perspectives; 14 Becoming Citizens of the Biosphere: Character,
Ecoflourishing, and Control in Our Newfound Common Home; 15 Becoming Human,
Intercultural, and Inter-creational: Movements toward Achieving
Ecoflourishing; V. Philosophical Remedies: Relationship, Work, Economy -
16 Primary Encounters: Relational Ontology and Ecoflourishing; 17 Toward a
Christian Ecological Philosophy of Work; 18 Fairy Tales and True Stories:
Economic Talk for Ecological Flourishing; VI. Virtue and Vice in Ecological
Practice: Confronting Current Challenges - 19 The Christian Ethics of
Waste, Contaminants, and Emerging Pollutants in Marine Ecosystems; 20
Reconciling the Food Chain with the Great Chain of Being: A Philosopher's
Reflection on Raising Sheep for Meat; 21 Justice, Biocentrism, and White
Supremacy: John Muir's Romantic Christian Ethics; 22 The Virtue of
Intersectionality in Environmental Ethics.