Catholic Philosophy, Theology and Secular Environmental Issues
Journal: CU Scholar (University of Colorado Boulder)
Year: 2023

This dissertation argues that religious ideas, beliefs, and practices often lie unacknowledged in conflicts surrounding seemingly secular environmental disputes. Similarly, environmental ideas, beliefs, and practices are appropriated by contemporary religions, including Catholicism, leading to novel theological contradictions and conflicts. Many religious ideas invoked in environmentalism remain uncontested and I examine them from a specific Catholic vantage point. I explore how Catholic theolog