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For Earth's Sake

Toward a Compassionate Ecology

by (author) Stephen Bede Scharper

edited by Simon Appolloni

Publisher
Novalis
Initial publish date
Jan 2013
Category
Catholic, Essays, Ethics
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9782896468560
    Publish Date
    Jan 2013
    List Price
    $14.99

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Description

We are bombarded by stories about environmental devastation and climate change. While scientists present their findings and governments wrestle with how to address the problems, we can feel helpless, angry, confused or sad. This book can help.

In reflecting upon the faith and fate of the Earth, Stephen Scharper reminds us that humans are part of the environment and encourages us to change our relationship to the planet. By engaging our minds, bodies and hearts, we can explore our faith from the point of view of the oppressed, alienating and suffering of our world in a self-critical way that is open to other ways of knowing the world.

About the authors

Stephen Bede Scharper is Associate Professor of Environment, Religion, and Anthropology at the University of Toronto, a Senior Fellow of Massey College, and columnist for the Toronto Star. He is co-editor of The Natural City (2012).

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Simon Appolloni, M.Div, a former director of Development and Peace (a Canadian agency), has written on environmental ethics for The Catholic Register. He is a doctoral candidate studying religion and environment at the University of Toronto.

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