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1 online resource (xxxiii, 279 pages) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Title Page -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- Human and Natural Ecology/Human Life and Dignity -- Bonaventure in Benedict -- If You Want Responsibility, Build Relationship -- Natural Law and the Natural Environment -- Solidarity, Justice, Poverty, and the Common Good -- Human, Social, and Natural Ecology -- Commodifying Creation? -- The Grammar of Creation -- The Sacramentality of Creation -- The Way of Wisdom -- The World as God's Icon -- Pope Benedict XVI's Cosmic Soteriology and the Advancement of Catechesis on the Environment -- Our Catholic Faith in Action -- Discernment of the Church and the Dynamics of the Climate Change Convention -- American Lifestyles and Structures of Sin -- American Nature Writing As a Critically-Appropriated Resource for Catholic Ecological Ethics -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Index -- About the Contributors. |
| Summary |
Environmental Justice and Climate Change: Assessing Pope Benedict XVI's Ecological Vision for the Catholic Church in the United States provides the most thorough theological treatment available on Benedict XVI's statements on human responsibility for addressing environmental degradation. Contributors include lay, ordained, and religious Catholic theologians, a philosopher, and bishops highlighting the contributions Pope Emeritus Benedict has made to Catholic teaching while offering fruitful directions for advancing concern about ongoing threats to the integrity of Earth. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Benedict XVI, Pope, 1927-2022.
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Benedict XVI, Pope, 1927-2022. |
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Catholic Church -- Doctrines.
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Catholic Church. |
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Human ecology -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church.
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Human ecology -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church. |
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Environmental justice -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Environmental justice -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. |
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Climatic changes.
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Climatic changes. |
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Environmentalism -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church.
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Environmentalism -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church. |
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Theology, Doctrinal. |
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RELIGION -- Christian Life -- Social Issues. |
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- General. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Schaefer, Jame, editor of compilation.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Environmental justice and climate change Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, 2013. 9780739183809 (cloth : alk. paper) (DLC) 2013031486 |
| ISBN |
9780739183816 ebook |
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0739183818 |
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9780739183809 cloth : alkaline paper |
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9780739183816 electronic |
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1306170931 (e-book) |
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9781306170932 (e-book) |
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073918380X |
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