Thomas Berry and the Reshaping of Catholic Environmentalism: From Human Well-Being to Biodiversity
This article criticizes the so-called “stewardship paradigm,” which forms the theological basis for Catholic environmentalism, and argues that Thomas Berry’s cosmology provides a more theologically palatable platform for developing Catholic environmentalism. The substantive ethical shift emerging fr...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Brill
[2020]
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| Dans: |
Worldviews
Année: 2020, Volume: 24, Numéro: 2, Pages: 156-183 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Berry, Thomas Mary 1914-2009
/ Catholicisme
/ Éthique environnementale
/ Biodiversité
/ Être humain
/ Bien-être
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| RelBib Classification: | KDB Église catholique romaine NCG Éthique de la création; Éthique environnementale |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Catholic environmentalism
B Ethics B Thomas Berry B human well-being B Cosmology B ethical normativity B Biodiversity |
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Volltext (Verlag) Volltext (doi) |
| Résumé: | This article criticizes the so-called “stewardship paradigm,” which forms the theological basis for Catholic environmentalism, and argues that Thomas Berry’s cosmology provides a more theologically palatable platform for developing Catholic environmentalism. The substantive ethical shift emerging from Berry’s cosmology is the displacement of human well-being as the proximate norm for human behavior in favor of promoting biodiversity on planet Earth. In other words, biodiversity is the primary ethical good, and human well-being is secondary. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5357 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Worldviews
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685357-20201006 |