This book is about the extent, origins and causes of the environmental crisis. Dr Northcott argues that Christianity has lost the biblical awareness of the inter-connectedness of all life. He shows how Christian theologians and believers might recover a more ecologically friendly belief system and l...

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Main Author:	Northcott, Michael S. (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1996
Series:	New studies in Christian ethics 10
Subjects:	Christentum Ethik Religion Ökologie Human ecology / Religious aspects / Christianity Christian ethics Environmental ethics Ecology / Moral and ethical aspects Umweltethik Christliche Ethik
Online Access:	BSB01 UBG01 Volltext
Summary:	This book is about the extent, origins and causes of the environmental crisis. Dr Northcott argues that Christianity has lost the biblical awareness of the inter-connectedness of all life. He shows how Christian theologians and believers might recover a more ecologically friendly belief system and life style. The author provides an important corrective to secular approaches to environmental ethics, including utilitarian individualism, animal rights theories and deep ecology. He contends that neither the stewardship tradition, nor the panentheist or process ecological theologies have successfully mobilised the Christian tradition. He demonstrates that the Hebrew Bible contains an ecological message which is close to the traditions of many primal and indigenous peoples and which provides an important corrective to instrumental attitudes to nature in much modern philosophy and Christian ethics
Item Description:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xvi, 379 pages)
ISBN:	9780511557477
DOI:	10.1017/CBO9780511557477