The Church’s Changing Climate Integrating Religion and Ecology Cory Andrew Labrecque, PhD Raymond F. Schinazi Scholar in Bioethics and Religious Thought | Center for Ethics Interim Director | Master of Arts in Bioethics | Laney Graduate School Emory University
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The Church’s Changing Climate Integrating Religion and Ecology
Cory Andrew Labrecque, PhD
Raymond F. Schinazi Scholar in Bioethics and Religious Thought | Center for Ethics
Interim Director | Master of Arts in Bioethics | Laney Graduate School
Emory University
“The attitudes and values that shape people’s
concepts of nature come primarily from religious
worldviews and ethical practices.”
Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim
“The moral imperative and value systems of
religions are indispensable in mobilizing the
sensibilities of people toward preserving the
environment.”
Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim
“The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis”
Lynn White, Jr.
“Human ecology is deeply conditioned by beliefs
about our nature and destiny – that is, by
religion.”
(Lynn White, Jr, 1205)
Christianity is the
“most anthropocentric religion the world has seen”
(White 1206)
1. Anthropocentrism
2. Linear Time and Progress
3. Eschatology
4. Hierarchy and Dualism
5. Sin
6. Rejection of Animism and the Desacralization of
Jones, Robert P., Daniel Cox, and Juhem Navarro-Rivera. “Believers, Sympathizers, and Skeptics: Why Americans Are Conflicted About Climate Change, Environment Policy, and Science.” Findings from the PRRI/AAR Religion, Values, and Climate Change Survey. Washington: Public Religion Research Institute, 2014.