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Zusatztext By writing so lyrically and in open conversation with so many others struggling to create language for this civilizational transition, Larry Rasmussen shows the awkwardness of inherited language and ideas for discussing the new moral world that humanity needs to learn to inhabit. He demonstrates how to make sense of ancient moral traditions in a new context, and how to bend them into a new imagination of the world. This book is a serious contribution to religious ethics. It will be appreciated not only by scholars in the field but by many thinking readers worried about sustainability crises and looking for cultural resources to reshape our shared moral imagination. Informationen zum Autor Larry L. Rasmussen is Reinhold Niebuhr Professor Emeritus of Social Ethics, Union Theological Seminary. Klappentext Grand Winner of the 2014 Nautilus Book Awards Zusammenfassung Larry L. Rasmussen offers a dramatic new way of thinking about human society, ethics, and the health of our planet. Rejecting the modern ethical assumption that morality applies to human society alone, Earth-honoring Faith argues that we must derive a system of ethics and morality that accounts for the wellbeing of all creation on Earth. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Prelude PART I 1 The Creature We Are 2 The World We Have 3 The Faith We Seek 4 The Ethic We Need: Change and Imagination 5 The Ethic We Need: Good Theory 6 The Ethic We Need: Community Matrix 7 The Ethic We Need: Tilling and Keeping Interlude PART II 8 Asceticism and Consumerism 9 The Sacred and the Commodified 10 Mysticism and Alienation 11 Prophetic/Liberative Practices and Oppression 12 Wisdom and Folly 13 Closing Postlude Notes Bibliography Index
