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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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Brill
[2020]
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Worldviews
Jahr: 2020, Band: 24, Heft: 2, Seiten: 156-183 |
| normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
Berry, Thomas Mary 1914-2009
/ Katholizismus
/ Umweltethik
/ Biodiversität
/ Mensch
/ Wohlbefinden
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| RelBib Classification: | KDB Katholische Kirche NCG Ökologische Ethik; Schöpfungsethik |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Catholic environmentalism
B Ethics B Thomas Berry B human well-being B Cosmology B ethical normativity B Biodiversity |
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Worldviews
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685357-20201006 |