Christianity and Agroecology Whelan Paperback Cambridge University Press

Christianity and Agroecology\n\nThis Element draws on agroecology to clarify, concretize, and deepen Catholic social teaching's natural law ethic.\n\nMatthew Philipp Whelan (Author)\n\n9781009158220, Cambridge University Press\n\nPaperback / softback, published 21 August 2025\n\n88 pages\n22.9 x 15.2 x 0.5 cm, 0.141 kg\n\nThis Element draws on the transdisciplinary field of agroecology to clarify and deepen Catholic social teaching's natural law ethic. In response to the ecological crisis, social teaching has begun to appeal to ecology and the exemplarity of natural ecosystems to foster care of creation. Some have criticized this natural law ethic, along with its invocations of balance and harmony, as overly idealized, advocating instead for an alternative view in which ecological dynamism and ambiguity preclude appeals to ecology for guidance. While sympathizing with these criticisms, this Element offers a different way forward, contending that social teaching's natural law ethic sh.