Thomas Berry and the Reshaping of Catholic Environmentalism: From Human Well-Being to Biodiversity

This article criticizes the so-called “stewardship paradigm,” which forms the theological basis for Catholic environmentalism, and argues that Thomas Berry’s cosmology provides a more theologically palatable platform for developing Catholic environmentalism. The substantive ethical shift emerging fr...

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Published in:Worldviews
Main Author: Graham, Mark E. 1965- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill [2020]
In: Worldviews
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Berry, Thomas Mary 1914-2009 / Catholicism / Environmental ethics / Biodiversity / Human being / Wellness
IxTheo Classification:KDB Roman Catholic Church
NCG Environmental ethics; Creation ethics
Further subjects:B Catholic environmentalism
B Ethics
B Thomas Berry
B human well-being
B Cosmology
B ethical normativity
B Biodiversity
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Summary:This article criticizes the so-called “stewardship paradigm,” which forms the theological basis for Catholic environmentalism, and argues that Thomas Berry’s cosmology provides a more theologically palatable platform for developing Catholic environmentalism. The substantive ethical shift emerging from Berry’s cosmology is the displacement of human well-being as the proximate norm for human behavior in favor of promoting biodiversity on planet Earth. In other words, biodiversity is the primary ethical good, and human well-being is secondary.
ISSN:1568-5357
Contains:Enthalten in: Worldviews
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15685357-20201006