Marshes of the Ocean Shore: Development of an Ecological Ethic

While the Catholic Church’s official teaching on the environment presents a hopeful and comprehensive ecological ethic rooted in the goodness of creation and humanity’s privileged role as co-creator, it does not sufficiently account for the violence of predation and humanity’s necessary participation in it. James Nash’s understanding of humans as altruistic, creative predators can further Catholic ecological ethics because it strikes a better balance between humanity’s call to love creation and the moral ambiguity of the evolutionary process. Humans as creative predators suggests three new understandings of what ecological sacrifice could entail: 1) to see the death of every creature, even if a morally justifiable death, as a kind of sacrifice; 2) to recognize that ecological sustainability may demand dramatic and subversive shifts in behavior; and 3) to sacrifice our tendency to view nonhumans instrumentally by advocating a Biotic Bill of Rights.

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Edward Schillebeeckx's Creation Theology as a Resource for Ecological Ethics

Horizons ◽

10.1017/s036096690000815x ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 38 (2) ◽

pp. 253-273

Author(s):

Erica Olson-Bang

Keyword(s):

Environmental Ethics ◽

Kingdom Of God ◽

Ecological Crisis ◽

Ecological Ethics ◽

Global Community ◽

Creation Theology ◽

Present Practice ◽

Fertile Soil ◽

Ecological Ethic ◽

Ethical Response

ABSTRACTAs the global community becomes increasingly attuned to the disastrous consequences of our long-standing environmental prodigality, Christians and Christian theologians are cultivating theological and ethical responses to the ecological crisis with the goal of fostering life-giving understandings of creation and ecophilic lifestyles. While many theologians and ethicists have heeded this call to read the signs of the environmental times, Schillebeeckx's creation theology remains an underutilized resource for developing an ethical response to this contemporary crisis. This article seeks to offer Schillebeeckx's theology of creation as fertile soil for nurturing an ecological ethic. This article highlights Schillebeeckx's growing ecological concerns, illustrates the connection between Schillebeeckx's theology of creation and his ecological consciousness, and transposes Schillebeeckx's emerging ecological themes into the register of environmental ethics. This ecological ethics emphasizes co-creativity with God in creation, ecological asceticism, following Christ's creational praxis, and actualizing the present practice of the coming kingdom of God.

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Toward a participatory ecological ethic for outdoor activities

New Moral Natures in Tourism ◽

10.4324/9781315265117-11 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 149-164 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Philip M. Mullins

Keyword(s):

Outdoor Activities ◽

Ecological Ethic

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Translanguaging aspects of modality

Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts ◽

10.1075/ttmc.1.1.02sid ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 27-48

Author(s):

Maria Sidiropoulou

Keyword(s):

Language Learning ◽

Study Skills ◽

Intercultural Sensitivity ◽

Cultural Variation ◽

Dynamic Potential ◽

Parallel Data ◽

Self Study ◽

Ecological Ethic ◽

Traditional Approaches ◽

Modal Systems

This article explores aspects of modal marker use in English and Greek and suggests that parallel data may significantly contribute to raising learners’ intercultural sensitivity in the FL classroom, as an instance of TOLC (Translation in Other Language Contexts). Parallel data seem to assume a dynamic potential (privileging learner autonomy and developing self-study skills), which other traditional approaches to the use of the modal system lack, leaving important aspects of cross-cultural variation out of the perspective of the learner. The study focuses on two aspects of intercultural variation in the use of the modal systems of English and Greek, namely shifting degrees of possibility-certainty and the shift across epistemic-deontic, as manifested through a 2013–2014 sample of parallel data from newspapers. It offers a set of sample exercises highlighting the potential of translation to contribute valuable insights to L2/additional language learning (ALL) and syllabus design, assuming an ecological ethic in acknowledging the primacy of context, including L1, especially if L1 is a less widely spoken language.

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Is There an Ecological Ethic?

Ethics ◽

10.1086/291944 ◽

1975 ◽

Vol 85 (2) ◽

pp. 93-109 ◽

Cited By ~ 63

Author(s):

Holmes Rolston

Keyword(s):

Ecological Ethic

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