Ask the beasts : Darwin and the god of love
Johnson, Elizabeth A., 1941-2014
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For millennia plant and animal species have received little sustained attention as subjects of Christian theology and ethics in their own right. Focused on the human dilemma of sin and redemptive grace, theology has considered the doctrine of creation to be mainly an overture to the main drama of human being's relationship to God. What value does the natural world have within the framework of religious belief? The crisis of biodiversity in our day, when species are going extinct at more than 1000 times the natural rate, renders this question acutely important. This book leads to the conclusion that love of the natural world is an intrinsic element of faith in God and that far from being an add-on, ecological care is at the centre of moral life.
Main title:
Ask the beasts : Darwin and the god of love / Elizabeth A. Johnson.
Author:
Johnson, Elizabeth A., 1941-, author
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury, 2014.London : Bloomsbury, 2014.
Collation:
xviii, 323 pages ; 25 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781472903730 (hbk)
Dewey class:
261.88261.88JOH
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1477752