Ecotheology and Nonhuman Ethics in Society by Melissa Brotton... - 9781498527903

Ecotheology and Nonhuman Ethics in SocietyA Community of Compassion\nAuthor(s): Melissa Brotton, Jerry Cappel, David Clough, Celia Deane-Drummond, Robert Gottfried, Kendra Haloviak Valentine, Perry H. Jones, David J. Kendall, Jeffrey Alan Lockwood, Mick Pope\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Lexington Books\nISBN-13: 9781498527903, 978-1498527903\nSynopsis\nThis book promotes Christian ecology and animal ethics from the perspectives of the Bible, science, and the Judeo-Christian tradition. In an age of climate change, how do we protect species and individual animals? Does it matter how we treat bugs? How does understanding the Trinity and Christ's self-emptying nature help us to be more responsible earth caretakers? What do Christian ethics have to do with hunting? How do the Foxfire books of Southern Appalachia help us to love a place? Does ecology need a place at the pulpit and in hymns? How do Catholic approaches, past and present, he?