Green discipleship
Subtitle: Catholic theological ethics and the environment
By: Tobias Winright, editor
Publisher: Anselm Academic
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Winona, MN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9781599820248
Subjects: Environmentalism; Human ecology; Catholic Church
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 453-467) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. From saving the whales to protecting the planet as a "duty incumbent on each and all" / Tobias Winright; title: Part I. Reading the signs of the times; title: 1. The signs of the times: the state of the question among ecologists / Cathy Mabry McMullen; title: 2. Restoring creation and redressing the public square: religious environmentalism and the Columbia River pastoral / Michael Agliardo; title: 3. If you want to cultivate peace, protect creation: message for the 2010 World Day of Peace / Pope Benedict XVI; title: Part II. The scriptures; title: 4. Creation and the environment in the Hebrew scriptures: a transvaluation of values / Randall Smith; title: 5. A new heaven and a new earth: creation in the New Testament / Thomas Bushlack; title: Part III. Christian tradition; title: 6. Retrieving Saint Francis: tradition and innovation for our ecological vocation / Keith Douglass Warner; title: 7. Saint Thomas Aquinas, the Thomistic tradition, and the cosmic common good / Daniel P. Scheid; title: Part IV. Fundamental moral theology; title: 8. Living the natural moral law and respecting the ecological good / Nicanor Pier Giorgio Austriaco; title: 9. The environment within: virtue ethics / Nancy M. Rourke; title: 10. Toward a eucharistic ecology / Stephen B. Wilson; title: 11. Neighbor to nature / Marcus Mescher; title: Part V. Social ethics; title: 12. Catholic social teaching and creation / Christopher P. Vogt; title: 13. God, creation, and the environment: feminist theological perspectives / Kari-Shane Davis Zimmerman; title: 14. Green solidarity: liberation theology, the ecological crisis, and the poor / Kathryn Lilla Cox; title: Part VI. Insights from other religions; title: 15. Judaism and the care for God's creation / Hava Tirosh-Samuelson; title: 16. Greater than the creation of mankind (Qur'an 40:57): creation as the divine signature in Qur'anic and Sufi revelation / June-Ann Greeley; title: 17. Why does the Buddha close his eyes in my Eden?: a Buddhist ecological challenge and invitation to Christians / David Clairmont; title: Part VII. Issues and applications; title: 18. Toward a just way of eating / Julie Hanlon Rubio; title: 19. Theology H₂O: the world water crisis and sacramental imagination / Mark J. Allman; title: 20. No peace on earth: war and the environment / Matthew A. Shadle; title: Conclusion. "Go forth in peace to love and serve the Lord" / Tobias Winright; title: Appendix. From the reference librarian: a practical guide to doing research / Ronald Crown.