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Main Title Earth community earth ethics /
Author Rasmussen, Larry L.,
Publisher Orbis Books,
Year Published 1996
OCLC Number 35016877
ISBN 1570750866; 9781570750861; 1570751862; 9781570751868
Subjects Human ecology--Religious aspects--Christianity ; Environmental ethics ; Christian ethics ; Social ethics ; âEcologie humaine--Aspect religieux--Christianisme ; Morale chrétienne ; Morale sociale ; Humanèokologie ; Christliche Ethik
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EIAM  BT695.5.R37 1996 Region 2 Library/New York,NY 07/16/1999
Collation xvi, 366 pages ; 24 cm.
Notes Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents Notes pt. 1: Earth scan -- A slow womb -- Sweet Betsy and her avalanche -- Three revolutions or four? -- Environmental apartheid -- Ecumenical earth -- -Creation's integrity -- The big economy and the great economy -- Message from Chiapas -- Message from Geneva -- Fish stories -- pt. 2: Earth faith -- Midges and cosmologies -- The vine languishes, the merry-hearted sigh -- Trees of life -- Or bare ruined choirs? -- The gifts of darkness -- Adam, where are you? -- ReBeginnings -- Returning to our senses -- The cross of reality -- Song of Songs -- pt. 3: Earth action -- Earth community -- The moral frame -- By grace through faith. In this important new book, social ethicist Larry Rasmussen lays the foundations for an approach to faith and ethics appropriate to a community of the earth, in all its peril and promise. Earth Community, Earth Ethics is a comprehensive treatment that synthesizes insights from religion, ethics, and environmentalism in a single vision for creating a sustainable community. Earth Community, Earth Ethics is arranged in three parts. In the first Rasmussen scans our global situation and brings into relief the extraordinary range of dangers threatening all life on our planet. In part two he explores worlds of religion, ethics, and human symbolism to glean from them the resources for a necessary "conversion to earth." Finally, he sketches a constructive ethic that can guide us out of our present situation. While its principle focus is environmental ethics Earth Community, Earth Ethics builds on the foundations of international discussions of sustainable development, and such books as The Ecology of Commerce and Envisioning a Sustainable Society. Rasmussen shows how the environmental predicament underscores a variety of crises afflicting modern industrial society: in economics, in politics, in gender and reproductive relations, as well as the debates on the very meaning of life itself.
Place Published Maryknoll, N.Y. :
PUB Date Free Form c1996.
Series Title Traced Ecology and justice
BIB Level m
Cataloging Source OCLC/T
LCCN 96026923 //r97
Merged OCLC records 1055436800
OCLC Time Stamp 19990708134648
Language eng
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OCLC Rec Leader 00853cam 2200289 a 45020