Learning Outcomes
1. 1E5B495A-CAE2-0001-132C-1C4C9B40EAE0
2. Identify the major questions of contemporary environmental ethics
4. 22,20,7,12,6,19
5. 1
6. 1E5B495A-D869-0001-C2DA-1FD5176012FE
7. Demonstrate a knowledge of how biblical and other sacred texts understand the natural world and human responsibility for creation
9. 22,7,12,6,8,9
10. 2
11. 1E5B495A-EAD4-0001-90A6-97DE9E13B320
12. Offer critical interpretations of select theological perspectives on creation and the natural world, both prior to the intentional development of theologies of creation and ecology, and in contemporary works that explicitly engage in the dialogue between theology and ecology
14. 22,20,7,23,8,21,14,9,10
15. 3
16. 1E5B495A-FBA8-0001-C9FC-703E280E6CC0
17. Demonstrate a specialist knowledge of Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato si’ and other major documents, for example, the Hindu and Islamic declarations on climate change
19. 22,17,7,12,6,23,8,14,11,9,10
20. 4
21. 1E5B495B-0888-0001-CABA-13FA187E1132
22. Critically engage in ecumenical, interreligious, and religious-secular dialogue about matters of common concern related to climate change and the environment
24. 22,17,20,18,7,23,8,21,9,10
25. 5
26. 1E5B495B-1B10-0001-B913-A775B40076E0
27. Engage in practical initiatives of environmental responsibility at grass roots level which are shaped by theological and religious perspectives on care for the earth
29. 22,17,18,16,15,23,8,21,14,11,9,10
30. 6
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Indicative Reading List
Books:
- Robin Attfield: 2018, Environmental Ethics, Oxford University Press, USA, 161, 9780198797166
- Bartholomew I (Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople),Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew: 2012, On Earth as in Heaven, Fordham Univ Press, 383, 9780823238859
- Richard Bauckham: 2011, Living with Other Creatures: Green Exegesis and Theology, Baylor University Press, 978-1602584
- Whitney A. Bauman, Richard R. Bohannon, Kevin J. O'Brien: 2017, Grounding Religion: A Field Guide to the Study of Religion and Ecology, 9781138194014
- Thomas Berry: 2009, The Sacred Universe, Columbia University Press, 208, 9780231149525
- Leonardo Boff: 1997, Cry of the Earth, Cry of the Poor, Orbis Books, 292, 9781570751363
- Daniel P. Castillo: 2019, An Ecological Theology of Liberation, Orbis Books, 272, 9781626983212
- Christopher Key Chapple, Mary Evelyn Tucker: 2000, Hinduism and Ecology, Harvard University Press, 9780945454250
- John Chryssavgis & Bruce V. Foltz, eds.: 2013, Toward an Ecology of Transfiguration: Orthodox Christian Perspectives on Environment, Nature, and Creation (Orthodox Christianity and Contemporary Thought), Fordham University Press, 978-0823251
- John B. Cobb: 2021, Is it Too Late? A Theology of Ecology, Fortress Press, 978-150647123
- Ernst M. Conradie & Hilda P. Koster: 2019, T&T Clark Handbook of Christian Theology and Climate Change, Bloomsbury Publishing, 537, 9780567675163
- Ellen F. Davis: 2008, Scripture, Culture, and Agriculture: An Agrarian Reading of the Bible, Cambridge University Press, 978-052173223
- Celia Deane-Drummond: 2017, A Primer in Ecotheology: Theology for a Fragile Earth, Cascade Books, 978-1498236
- Richard C. Foltz, Azizan Baharuddin, and Frederick M. Denny, eds.: 2003, Islam and Ecology: A Bestowed Trust, Harvard University Press, 978094545439
- Robert Booth Fowler: 0, The Greening of Protestant Thought, University of North Carolina Press, 1995, 978-0-8078-45
- Francis, Pope: 2015, Encyclical Letter LAUDATO SI’, ON CARE FOR OUR COMMON HOME,
- Francis, Pope: 2023, Laudate Deum,
- Ivone Gebara: 1999, Longing for Running Water: EcoFeminism and Liberation, Fortress Press, 978-080063183
- Aruna Gnanadason: 2005, Listen to the Women: Listen to the Earth, WCC Publications, 978282541472
- John Grim: 0, Indigenous Traditions and Ecology, 0945454287
- John Grim, Mary Evelyn Tucker: 2014, Ecology and Religion, Island Press, 0, 9781597267076
- Kevin Hargaden, Ciara Murphy: 0, The Parish as Oasis, 1788125762
- Laura M. Hartman: 2011, The Christian Consumer, Oxford University Press USA, 271, 9780199746422
- Zachary Hayes: 2001, Gift of Being, Liturgical Press, 140, 9780814659410
- Dieter T. Hessel, Rosemary Radford Ruether: 2000, Christianity and Ecology, Harvard University Press, 9780945454205
- Daniel Hillel: 2006, The Natural History of the Bible: An Environmental Exploration of the Hebrew Scriptures, Columbia University Press, 378, 9780231133630
- Grace Jantzen: 1984, God's World, God's Body, Darton, Longman & Todd Ltd, 0232515816
- Mari Joerstad: 2019, The Hebrew Bible and Environmental Ethics: Humans, NonHumans, and the Living Landscape, Cambridge University Press, 1108476449
- Elizabeth A. Johnson: 2018, Creation and the Cross, Orbis Books, 162698266X
- Hans Jonas: 1984, The Imperative of Responsibility, University of Chicago Press, 267, 0226405974
- Catherine Keller: 2021, Facing Apocalypse: Climate, Democracy, and Other Last Chances, Orbis Books, 1626984131
- Paul F. Knitter: 1995, One Earth, Many Religions: Multifaith Dialogue and Global Responsibility, Orbis Books, 1570750378
- Dermot A. Lane: 2021, Theology and Ecology in Dialogue: The Wisdom of Laudato Si’, Paulist Press, 9781788121941
- Elizabeth McAnally: 2019, Loving Water Across Religions, Orbis Books, 9781626983076
- Hilary Marlow: 2015, Biblical Prophets and Contemporary Environmental Ethics, Oxford University Press, 9780198745105
- Sallie McFague: 2013, Blessed are the Consumers: Climate Change and the Practice of Restraint, Augsburg Fortress Publishing, 0, 9780800699604
- Mary Midgley: 2006, Science and Poetry, Routledge Classics, 9780415378482
- David Grumett, Rachel Muers: 2008, Eating and Believing, A&C Black, 283, 9780567032843
- Michael S. Northcott: 2015, Place, Ecology and the Sacred, Bloomsbury Academic, 0, 9781441134066
- Michael S Northcott: 2007, A Moral Climate: The Ethics of Global Warming, Orbis, 978-157075711
- Kevin J. O'Brien: 2010, An Ethics of Biodiversity: Christianity, Ecology, and the Variety of Life, Georgetown University Press, 9781589016453
- Frank Pasquale, ed.: 2019, Care for the World: Laudato Si' and Catholic Social Thought in an Era of Climate Crisis (Law and Christianity), Cambridge University Press, 209, 1316510468
- Larry L. Rasmussen: 2015, Earth-Honoring Faith: Religious Ethics in a New Key, Oxford University Press, 475, 9780190245740
- Terra Schwerin Rowe: 2017, Toward a Better Worldliness: Ecology, Economy, and the Protestant Tradition, Fortress Press, 1506423337
- Jame Schaefer: 2009, Theological Foundations for Environmental Ethics: Reconstructing Patristic and Medieval Concepts, Georgetown University Press, 334, 9781589012684
- Daniel P. Scheid: 2016, The Cosmic Common Good: Religious Grounds for Ecological Ethics, Oxford University Press, 265, 9780199359431
- David Mevorach Seidenberg: 2016, Kabbalah and Ecology: God's Image in the More-Than-Human World, Cambridge University Press, 0, 1107441447
- Stephen M. Gardiner & Allen Thompson, eds.: 2016, The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Ethics, Oxford University Press,
- Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, ed.: 2003, Judaism and Ecology, Harvard University Press, 9780945454366
- Christiana Z. Peppard: 2018, Just Water: Theology, Ethics, and the Global Water Crisis (2nd edition), Orbis, 9781626982970
Articles:
- Anthony Pinn: 0, "Of God, Money, and Earth: The Black Church on Economics and Environmental Racism", Journal of Religious Thought, 56-57, 1-2 (Spring/Fall 2000/2001) 43-61,
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