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Title Care for the world : Laudato si' and Catholic social thought in an era of climate crisis / edited by Frank Pasquale
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 196 pages)
Series Law and christianity
Law and Christianity.
Contents Introduction: the ethical, legal, and political significance of Laudato si' -- Amanda Jaret and Frank A. Pasquale -- Our common responsibility for our common home: the activist vision of Laudato si'/ Anthony Annett -- Carbon trading and the morality of markets in Laudato si' / Eduardo M. Penalver -- The need for an "integral ecology" in connection with the UN Sustainable Development Goals / Massimiliano Montini and Francesca Volpe -- Alter-ecologies: envisioning papal and ecomodernist nuclear energy policy futures / Vincent Ialenti -- Laudato si'and the tragedy of the "throwaway culture" / Lucia Silecchia -- The other seamless garment- Laudato si'on the human relationship to created nature / Mark Shiffman -- Towards a bright mountain: Laudato si' and the critique of technology / Zachary Loeb -- A critique of mastery and an ethics of attunement: from Spe Salvi to Laudato si' / Frank Pasquale -- "Truly, much can be done!": cooperative economics from the Book of Acts to Pope Francis / Nathan Schneider -- Toward an ethic of "civic and political love" in the workplace / Amanda Jaret and David Gregory -- Laudato si' and augmented reality- in search of an "integral ecology" for the digital age / Alessandro Spina
Summary "Faith offers us many spiritual gifts. One of the greatest of these gifts is a sense of perspective-an appreciation of the smallness of our span of life on earth, and the greatness of eternity that awaits. A contemplative life enables us to perceive our surroundings sub species aeternitatis-a perspective transcending petty demands or ephemeral desires. Saints like Francis of Assisi and Teresa of Lysieux exemplify this gift of stepping outside of time, outside of human plans, to apprehend in radical simplicity the timeless virtues of self-giving, service, and contemplation of the divine"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 01, 2019)
Subject Catholic Church. Pope (2013- : Francis). Laudato si'.
SUBJECT Laudato si' (Catholic Church. Pope (2013- : Francis)) fast
Subject Human ecology -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church.
Ecotheology.
Climatic changes -- Effect of human beings on.
Christian sociology -- Catholic Church.
RELIGION -- Christian Life -- Social Issues.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
Christian sociology -- Catholic Church
Climatic changes -- Effect of human beings on
Ecotheology
Human ecology -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church
Form Electronic book
Author Pasquale, Frank, editor
ISBN 9781108247306
110824730X
9781108227049
110822704X