Saving Creation
Nature and Faith in the Life of Holmes Rolston III
1st Edition
Published on 15. April 2011
256 pages
978-1-59534-098-6 (ISBN)
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Holmes Rolston III has long been recognized as the "father of environmental ethics." Internationally renowned for the synthesis he has found in evolutionary biology and Christianity, Rolston has followed an immensely interesting life course. In this compelling biography, Rolston's story is traced from childhood to the present, detailing the process by which he has come to hone his profound philosophies. Culled from countless interviews with Rolston himself, along with his family and colleagues, this biography is both an engaging life story and a compendium of Rolston's thoughts on the value of nature, resource management, aesthetics, international development, and the relationship of culture to nature, wilderness, and natural theology.
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Christopher J. Preston is the author of Grounding Knowledge: Environmental Philosophy, Epistemology, and Place, the editor of Engineering the Climate: The Ethics of Solar Radiation Management, and the coeditor, with Wayne Ouderkirk, of Nature, Value, and Duty: Life on Earth with Holmes Rolston III. He is a noted expert in environmental philosophy and the ethics of emerging technologies and teaches philosophy at the University of Montana in Missoula.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Southern Grounding
- 1 Shenandoah Valley Childhood
- 2 Country Schoolhouse to Atomic Physics Lab
- 3 Graduate School to Rural Pastorate
- Part II A Pastor Gone Wild
- 4 Preacher and Appalachian Naturalist
- 5 Leaving the Ministry
- 6 Discovering Philosophy
- Part III Rocky Mountain Philosopher
- 7 Colorado Breakthrough
- 8 Valuing Wild Nature
- 9 Ecology and Aesthetics in Yellowstone
- Part IV Global Environmental Ethics
- 10 Wilderness and the Developing World
- 11 Feeding People, Saving Nature
- Part V Theology for a Green Earth
- 12 Christianity and the Struggle with Evolution
- 13 Cruciform Nature
- Epilogue
- Select Bibliography of Rolston's Work
- Index
