In Communion with God's Sparrow: Incorporating Animal Agency into the Environmental Vision of Laudato Sí

Although a conventional environmentalism focuses on the health of ecological systems, Pope Francis's 2015 environmental encyclical Laudato Sí invokes St. Francis of Assisi to emphasize God's love for the individual organism, no matter how small. Decrying the tendency to regard other creatu...

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Published in:Sophia
Main Author: Ashley, Mary A. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Netherlands [2018]
In: Sophia
Year: 2018, Volume: 57, Issue: 1, Pages: 103-118
RelBib Classification:KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
KDB Roman Catholic Church
NBD Doctrine of Creation
NCG Environmental ethics; Creation ethics
VA Philosophy
Further subjects:B Agency
B Catholic
B Franciscan
B Kenneth J. Shapiro
B Merleau-Ponty
B Laudato Sí
B Phenomenology
B Telic naturalism
B Kinesthetic empathy
B Pope Francis
B Alasdair MacIntyre
B Communion
B Animal
B Pope Benedict XVI
B Nonmaleficence
B Saint Francis of Assisi
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