Creation, Character, and Wisdom: Rethinking the Roots of Environmental Ethics

Bland, Dave L; Webb, Sean Patrick

ISBN 10: 1498237320 / ISBN 13: 9781498237321

Published by Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Creation, Character, and Wisdom: Rethinking the Roots of Environmental Ethics
• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1498237320
• ISBN 13: 9781498237321
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

While the traditional Christian engagement with environmental ethics too often begins and ends with Genesis, this project joins numerous recent efforts by biblical scholars to identify new foundations on which Christians can make ethical choices about creation. Wisdom literature, a largely untapped resource, offers a unique point of entry for environmental ethics. Despite their marginalization in ethical debates on the environment, the biblical sages have a great deal to say about the inseparability of God's creation and righteous living--observations that must then be brought into conversation with a host of contemporary disciplines. As the crisis of environmental degradation permeates the lived experience of more and more Christians, it is increasingly critical to have solid and biblically defensible foundations from which to make moral choices about the environmental behavior of individuals, corporations, and nations.

About the Authors

Dave Bland is Professor of Homiletics at Harding School of Theology in Memphis. He is the author of Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Songs (2002) in the College Press NIV Old Testament Commentary Series, and Proverbs and the Formation of Character (2015).


Sean Patrick Webb is an instructor and doctoral candidate in the Department of History at Texas Tech University.