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Earth-honoring Faith - Religious Ethics in a New Key (Hardcover)
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Earth-honoring Faith - Religious Ethics in a New Key (Hardcover)
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Grand Winner of the 2014 Nautius Book Awards
Thoughtful observers agree that the planetary crisis we now
face-climate change; species extinction; the destruction of entire
ecosystems; the urgent need for a more just economic-political
order-is pushing human civilization to a radical turning point:
change or perish. But precisely how to change remains an open
question.
In Earth-honoring Faith, Larry Rasmussen answers that question with
a dramatically new way of thinking about human society, ethics, and
the ongoing health of our planet. Rejecting the modern assumption
that morality applies to human society alone, Rasmussen insists
that we must derive a spiritual and ecological ethic that accounts
for the well-being of all creation, as well as the primal elements
upon which it depends: earth, air, fire, water, and sunlight. He
argues that good science, necessary as it is, will not be enough to
inspire fundamental change. We must draw on religious resources as
well to make the difficult transition from an
industrial-technological age obsessed with consumption to an
ecological age that restores wise stewardship of all life.
Earth-honoring Faith advocates an alliance of spirituality and
ecology, in which the material requirements for planetary life are
reconciled with deep traditions of spirituality across religions,
traditions that include mysticism, sacramentalism, prophetic
practices, asceticism, and the cultivation of wisdom. It is these
shared spiritual practices that can produce a chorus of world
faiths to counter the consumerism, utilitarianism, alienation,
oppression, and folly that have pushed us to the brink.
Written with passionate commitment and deep insight, Earth-honoring
Faith reminds us that we must live in the present with the
knowledge that the eyes of future generations will look back at us.
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