Environmental Ethics, Ecological Theology, and Natural Selection: Suffering and Responsibility (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780231126618)

In the last few decades, religious and secular thinkers have tackled the world's escalating environmental crisis by attempting to develop an ecological ethic that is both scientifically accurate and free of human-centered preconceptions. This groundbreaking study shows that many of these environmental ethicists continue to model their positions on romantic, pre-Darwinian concepts that disregard the predatory and cruelly competitive realities of the natural world. Examining the work of such influential thinkers as James Gustafson, Sallie McFague, Rosemary Radford Ruether, John Cobb, Peter Singer, and Holmes Rolston, Sideris proposes a more realistic ethic that combines evolutionary theory with theological insight, advocates a minimally interventionist stance toward nature, and values the processes over the products of the natural world.

Author: Lisa Sideris
ISBN-10: 0231126611
ISBN-13: 9780231126618
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/16/2003
Pages: 328
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 9.12h x 6.02w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2004 pg. 1099