| Description |
xiii, 257 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The Biblical Vision of Creation -- Does Yahweh Care about Whales? -- Is Christianity to Blame for the Problem? -- New Developments -- The Priestly "Steward" vs. the Yahwist's "Service" of Nature -- Nature Symbolic of Promise -- Not Anthropocentrism but Theocentrism -- Promise and the Land -- Transcendence and Negation -- Nature as Sacrament -- Sacrament as Human Deed -- The Development of Scientific Materialism -- Imperial Ecology and the Death of Nature -- Literacy and Detachment from the Earth -- Imperial Ecology -- Enter Isaac Newton: The Death of Nature -- Classical Physics and Economic Materialism -- The Clockmaker God -- The Competitive Ethos Triumphant -- How the Industrial World Works -- Arcadian Ecology -- The Harsh Lesson of the Galapagos -- Are Ecologists the Good Guys? -- State of the Earth -- Is There an Environmental Crisis? -- The Case against Environmental Hype -- Reading Earth's Vital Signs: Soil and Food Production, Water, Forests, Biodiversity -- Pushing the Limits -- Built-in Blindness to Limits -- Energy Consumption -- Pollution and Other Garbage -- Global Warming -- Preventive Action? -- The Dynamics of Unsustainability -- Scientific Uncertainty -- Fitting into the Great Economy -- Driving Forces behind Environmental Damage -- Malthusian, Structuralist, and Economistic Arguments -- The Debate Continues -- The New Colonialism -- Sustainable Development vs. Sustainable Communities -- Civilizing the Global Marketplace -- The New Cosmology -- Evolution and Theological Repair -- Theology in a Static Cosmos. |
| Subject |
Human ecology -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Nature -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Environmental ethics.
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Religion and science.
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Environmental ethics. (OCoLC)fst00912979
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Human ecology -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
(OCoLC)fst00962969
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Nature -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
(OCoLC)fst01034599
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Religion and science. (OCoLC)fst01093848
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Milieuethiek.
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Christelijke ethiek.
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Mens en natuur.
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| ISBN |
1570753415 |
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9781570753411 |
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1570754780 |
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9781570754784 |
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