RT Article
T1 Permaculture as Theo-drama in the Multispecies Commons: Holmgren’s Permaculture as Performance for Deane-Drummond’s Ecotheology
JF Journal of reformed theology
VO 19
IS 1/2
SP 79
OP 104
A1 Bierma, Troy
LA English
YR 2025
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1925444295
AB This article limits itself to a selection of key ideas on animal ethics from Celia Deane-Drummond’s ecotheology. She has been generally cautious about venturing into ethical implications of her ecotheology. The result is that her robust theological reflection remains rather open-ended for practicing growth in virtue. I juxtapose some of her key ideas with David Holmgren’s permaculture approach to animals to investigate how far permaculture can guide the performance of Deane-Drummond’s normative concerns. Permaculture is a design science for applying insights from ecology as an applied environmental ethic. I argue that Holmgren’s permaculture can guide a virtuous practice of Deane-Drummond’s animal ethics and lends itself as a context for ecotheological reflection. How can permaculture develop our ability to risk identifying and taking ethical environmental actions with relation to animals? What fruit might be borne for our own growth in virtue through the practice of permaculture’s approach to animals?
K1 multispecies commons
K1 Permaculture
K1 Theo-drama
K1 Deane-Drummond
K1 Holmgren
DO 10.1163/15697312-bja10075