Environmental Justice and Climate Change: Assessing Pope Benedict XVI's Ecological Vision for the Catholic Church in the United States

Environmental Justice and Climate Change: Assessing Pope Benedict XVI's Ecological Vision for the Catholic Church in the United States

Environmental Justice and Climate Change: Assessing Pope Benedict XVI's Ecological Vision for the Catholic Church in the United States

Environmental Justice and Climate Change: Assessing Pope Benedict XVI's Ecological Vision for the Catholic Church in the United States

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780739183809
Publisher: Lexington Books
Publication date: 11/21/2013
Pages: 322
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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
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