Earth-Honoring Faith Religious Ethics in a New Key

Name: Earth-Honoring Faith Religious Ethics in a New Key
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ISBN: 9780199917006

ISBN-10: 0199917000

ISBN-13: 9780199917006

Edition: 2013

Authors: Larry L. Rasmussen

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Larry L. Rasmussen offers a dramatic new way of thinking about human society, ethics, and the health of our planet. Rejecting the modern ethical assumption that morality applies to human society alone, Earth-honoring Faith argues that we must derive a system of ethics and morality that accounts for the wellbeing of all creation on Earth, as well as the primal elements upon which it depends: earth, air, fire, water, and sunlight.Rasmussen shows that religious resources are essential in the difficult transition from an industrial-technological age to an ecological one. He advocates an alliance of spirituality and ecology, in which the requirements for planetary life are reconciled with the…

Book details

List price: $83.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/2/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 432
Size: 6.97" wide x 9.29" long x 1.43" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Prelude






The Creature We Are



The World We Have



The Faith We Seek



The Ethic We Need: Change and Imagination



The Ethic We Need: Good Theory



The Ethic We Need: Community Matrix



The Ethic We Need: Tilling and Keeping


Interlude






Asceticism and Consumerism



The Sacred and the Commodified



Mysticism and Alienation



Prophetic-Liberative Practices and Oppression



Wisdom and Folly



Closing


Postlude


Notes


Bibliography


Index


Index of Scripture Passages