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Marangudakis's (1998) analysis of environmental engagement in Left & Right political thought is challenged; specifically, Marangudakis is criticized for failing to question the separation of nature & culture in contemporary theological thought about environmental issues. Bruno Latour's (eg, 1991) discussion of modernizing practices is interpreted as addressing this distinction between culture & nature, since the category of nature resists identification. In addition, Donna Haraway's (eg, 1991) study of cyborg feminism & technology is viewed as re-creating nature, thus changing the relationship between culture & nature. Nevertheless, Haraway's approach is critiqued for disregarding the mimetic nature of technology & the need for a theological account of the nature-culture relationship. An analysis of the transformation of traditional understandings of ecologism to a secularized one during the early modern era is deemed necessary; John Duns Scotus's (eg, 1962) secularized account of the division between nature & culture is viewed as such an account. In agreeing with Marangudakis's perception of a spiritual vacuum in contemporary society, it is concluded that an alternative notion of the nature-culture association is needed. J. W. Parker

Educators have long used role-play to encourage a significant shift in learner perspective, and the social and cognitive benefits of this active learning tool are well documented. Although the use of role-play has been encouraged as a transformative approach to challenge the worldview of individual learners in the context of environmental education, the efficacy of its application as a direct means to enhance learners' behavior towards the environment has not been previously investigated. In this study role-play simulations were integrated with case study to expose learners to some of the socioscientific issues that typically arise from environmental debate. Learners were separated into groups representing the interests of parties that typically negotiate environmental affairs in real world scenarios (conservationists, scientists, politicians, NGOs, stakeholders), and tasked with preparing role-play simulations using a variety of flipped learning techniques. Learners' carbon footprints were monitored pre and post intervention, and CO2 emission scores were used as a proxy for their behaviour towards the environment. Five role-play simulations were run overall. These were integrated with case studies associated with fisheries issues, and climate change. Anonymous participant surveys indicated that learners responded positively to the intervention, and participants' CO2 emission scores improved significantly (T1,59 = 2.723, p = 0.009). In the context of environmental sciences, learners that engage in the integrated role-play and case study approach may benefit from flipped learning techniques to prepare their simulations, and gain confidence from self-actualising moments of achievement when they realise an improvement in their environmental behaviour.

What is radical orthodoxy? -- Radical orthodoxy : from participation to later modernity / Simon Oliver -- Radical orthodoxy : a conversation / Rupert Shortt -- Postmodern critical augustinianism : a short summa in forty-two responses to unasked questions / John Milbank -- Theology and philosophy, faith and reason -- Truth and vision / John Milbank -- Duns Scotus : his historical and contemporary significance / Catherine Pickstock -- Theology and the secular -- Spatialization : the middle of modernity / Catherine Pickstock -- Political theology and the new science of politics / John Milbank -- Christ and gift -- Christ the exception / John Milbank -- The schizoid Christ / Graham Ward -- Church and Eucharist -- Thomas Aquinas and the quest for the Eucharist / Catherine Pickstock -- The ontological scandal / Graham Ward -- Politics and theology -- A fire strong enough to consume the house : the wars of religion and the rise of the nation state / William Cavanaugh -- Materialism and transcendence / John Milbank -- Afterward: The grandeur of reason and the perversity of rationalism : radical orthodoxy's first decade / John Milbank