Being-In-Creation: Human Responsibility in an Endangered World

by Bruce Ellis Benson

Book Overview

What is the proper relationship between human beings and the more-than-human world? This philosophical question, which underlies vast environmental crises, forces us to investigate the tension between our extraordinary powers, which seem to set us apart from nature, even above it, and our thoroughgoing ordinariness, as revealed by the evolutionary history we share with all life.

The contributors to this volume ask us to consider whether...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823265005
• ISBN13: 9780823265008
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"