Theology, creation, and environmental ethics
Subtitle: from creatio ex nihilo to terra nullius
By: by Whitney Bauman.
Series: Routledge studies in religion -- 12
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780415998130
Subjects: Creation -- History of doctrines; Power (Christian theology) -- History of doctrines; Human ecology -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines; Philosophical theology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.         ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : points of departure; title: A genealogy of the Christian colonial mindset : ex nihilo from disputed beginnings to orthodox origins; title: Ex nihilo and the origin of an empire; title: Ex nihilo, erasure and discovery?; title: The cogito, ex nihilo, and the legacy of John Locke; title: The creation ex nihilo of terra nullius lands : omnipotent nations and the logic of global-colonization; title: From epistemologies of domination to grounded thinking; title: Opening words about God onto creatio continua; title: Creatio continua "all the way down": a post-colonial, planetary understanding of continuing creation; title: Conclusion : a brief thought after.