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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- Introduction Celia Deane-Drummond -- Part I Teilhard and the Cosmos -- Charter 1 Exploring Teilhard's 'New Mysticism': 'Building the Cosmos' -- Charter 2 La Liberté Selon Teilhard et la Science -- Part II Teilhard and Mysticism -- Charter 3 An Overview of Teilhard's Commitment to 'Seeing' as Expressed in His Phenomenology, Metaphysics, and Mysticism -- Charter 4 One Planet, One Spirit: Searching for an Ecologically Balanced Spirituality -- Charter 5 Teilhard: A Mystical Survivor -- Part III Teilhard and Ecotheology -- Chapter 6 Cosmic Communion: A Contemporary Reflection on the Eucharistic Vision of Teilhard De Chardin -- Chapter 7 The Exploitation of Nature and Teilhard's Ecotheology of Love -- Part IV Teilhard and Environmental Responsibility -- Chapter 8 Our Environmental Responsibilities in Light of Contemporary Cosmology: A Teilhardian Retrospect -- Chapter 9 Teilhard De Chardin's Engagement with the Relationship between Science and Theology in Light of Discussions about Environmental Ethics -- Chapter 10 Teilhard and the Environment -- Part V Teilhard between East and West -- Chapter 11 Newman and Teilhard: The Challenge of the East -- Chapter 12 Sophia, Mary and the Eternal Feminine in Pierre Teilhard De Chardin and Sergei Bulgakov -- Index of Authors -- Index of Subjects

There are two driving questions informing this book. The first is where does our moral life come from? It presupposes that considering morality broadly is inadequate. Instead, different aspects need to be teased apart. It is not sufficient to assume that different virtues are bolted onto a vicious animality, red in tooth and claw. Nature and culture have interlaced histories. By weaving in evolutionary theories and debates on the evolution of compassion, justice and wisdom, it showa a richer account of who we are as moral agents. The second driving question concerns our relationships with animals. Deane-Drummond argues for a complex community-based multispecies approach. Hence, rather than extending rights, a more radical approach is a holistic multispecies framework for moral action. This need not weaken individual responsibility. She intends not to develop a manual of practice, but rather to build towards an alternative philosophically informed approach to theological ethics, including animal ethics. The theological thread weaving through this account is wisdom. Wisdom has many different levels, and in the broadest sense is connected with the flow of life understood in its interconnectedness and sociality. It is profoundly theological and practical. In naming the project the evolution of wisdom Deane-Drummond makes a statement about where wisdom may have come from and its future orientation. But justice, compassion and conscience are not far behind, especially in so far as they are relevant to both individual decision-making and0institutions

Introduction: the recovery of virtue for an ethics of nature -- Environmental ethics -- Animal ethics -- The ethics of biotechnology -- The ethics of cloning -- Psychology and moral agency -- Ethics and Gaia -- Feminism and the ethics of nature -- Towards an ethic of wisdom.

In the public political sphere truth telling is becoming more the exception than the rule. Of all the tendencies to sin, lying is arguably one of the most destructive and most distinctive of human societies. Or is it? Is it, for example, right to exaggerate the importance of keystone species in order to enhance public support for biodiversity conservation? Longstanding philosophical debates exist about the moral legitimacy of lying in certain circumstances where not to do so would lead to harmful social outcomes. What might be the evolutionary roots of tendencies to deceive and how might this map onto human capacities for lying? Is an Augustinian approach to lying as always fundamentally wrong too rigid an approach or is it essential to Christian witness in a world where truth telling is habitually compromised? This paper will explore the fuzzy boundaries between natural and social evils and tease out in a preliminary way their relationships with original sin.

Concern for the environment has developed and intensified over the last few decades to the point where it now dominates much of our contemporary political landscape and culture. The rise of religious environmentalism in particular adds its own distinctive voice to the debate, for it seeks to trace both the malaise and a potential solution to environmental understanding. In Eco-Theology, Celia Deane-Drummond offers a comprehensive resource book for this burgeoning field of enquiry that highlights and seeks to evaluate the merits or otherwise of contemporary eco-theologies. She introduces the reader to critical debates in eco-theology, tracing trends from around the globe and key theological responses, and encourages reflection and analysis through further reading sections at the end of each chapter and questions for discussion.