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works scattered throughout the canon, Milton, Christine de Pizan, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Anita Brookner....(But why SEEING GREEN no Wife of Bath? Surely this is a strange omission.)...
...Again her plot summaries often un- physically, Drummond is seen weightangle in illuminating ways, the inter- ing the secular with the sacred...
...As it happened, the Cruthe environment...
...Charles Powers and Marian Chertow, authors of this particular chapter, argue _1K\ LIBRARY O F R ELI u I D US BIOGRAPHY that such systems' approaches should form the foundation for the next generation of U.S...
...Two major timeless with time nor does the story of 240 pp...
...In addition to varying writbuilt on an assurance of that tradition's I complexity of the subject ing styles and subject matter (including irrelevance...
...Yet, considered together, these Stephen Scharper's Redeeming the Time, varying perspectives on environmental Robert Jaquay is associate director of The briefly noted here, is a comprehensive progress positively affect one another- George Gund Foundation, a private philanreview of Christian writing on the eco- the economic isn't so ruthless, the moral thropy in Cleveland, Ohio...
...Industrial ecology leads to a tion prevention is limited...
...What a peculiar feeling it is teen chapters-each a separately written to end a book whose very weight of writ- essay-edited and arranged into a coten and iconographic evidence points to herent, accessible form...
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...Ironically, merous contributors can demand more at least for Christian readers, the lack of n writing about the envi- of a reader than a book written in a sinstridency in Pamela Norris's analysis is ronment, the breadth and gle voice...
...country (many consciously from "outThis is a thoroughly secular book, and Redeeming the Time side the beltway") and a wide array of its most overt judgments are essentially A Political Theology of the backgrounds (highway planners, busiaesthetic...
...of environmental ethics in children...
...is held in the other...
...Thinking Ecologically, Reand ethical reasoning concerning the pro- mentable solutions...
...When aligned itself with emperors who reters, avoids concise definition but at least he sought a Catholic to serve on this moved from Roman law the very exsuggests attributes of a constructive di- commission, he found a good one in the emptions for Jews that had enabled early alogue dealing with the environment...
...Educating Neither is perfect: The moral approach strides, bag in hand, through the courtWestern students about the Korari s legal isn't likely to lead directly to imple- house door...
...It is better, they argue, to adopt structive courses of action for firms, govther environmental progress under "first a policy framework that is collaborative ernment, and individuals can be set acgeneration" policies emphasizing pollu- rather than confrontational, more com- cordingly...
...Topics ton as a monk," writes Cunningham, "one does not understand Merton range across the university's curricuat all...
...She does this imperfect analogy, ambitiously seeks a reader service in pushing the analysis Thinking Ecologically to reorient this nation's frequently conas deftly as she does...
...Not content effect on his thinking...
...He writes frequently logical crisis-a literature which has bur- becomes increasingly pragmatic...
...In the sevthe awe inspired by nature's grandeur Memorial Center in Jerusalem, Cargas enth century the church even forbade with concern for the effects of environ- was the logical choice...
...His product of an all-powerful deity, is con- best-known book, Reflections of a Postsidered in another chapter...
...life and his subsequent growth into a modern-day spiritual master...
...In practice compartmentalized fashion with overly notion of "industrial ecology...
...is neither needed nor possible...
...The chapthis updated Eve, women can consider ter-by-chapter presentation of "new gen"the difficult choices and compromises of eration" ideas is offered not so much as adult life, the requirement to balance ex- All Creation Is middle ground between opposing forces, Groaning ploration and individuation with social but as higher ground where more proand family demands...
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...Fortunately, choosing one per- shrug, he slaps the two books together, and responsible husband of all the crea- spective over the other is not necessary...
...Fresh tend to be more direct and intensely inroles within and without the church...
...In recognition of Christians to consult with Jewish docmental degradation on the poorest and Cargas's prolific scholarly work (more tors, a teaching no Catholic would now most vulnerable...
...Under this prehensive as opposed to fragmented, more holistic, longer-term assessment of structure (created by a series of federal less crisis-driven and more responsive to environmental threats than does the curstatutes such as The Clean Air Act and context and circumstance...
...rent concentration on a specific type of The Clean Water Act), the editors write, Representative of the many cogent pollutant or to problems arising at a parenvironmental problems are attacked in ideas brought forth in this volume is the ticular point of production...
...RANT) RAPIDS, M1 49503 the environment, contributed by Khalid Commonweal 40 March 10, 2000 Khan, associate dean of Portland's School ly...
...from victory defending a high-school formation-packed than those in a book This "biography" of Eve, in its deraci- biology teacher prosecuted for present- prepared by a single set of authors...
...Edward T. Wheeler is dean of faculty at the lies Darwin's Origin of Species...
...If one does not understand Mer- specifically for each chapter...
...environmental policy...
...cles) and his enormous service to im- nessed a new Christian attitude toward Both All Creation Is Groaning and Re- proving Jewish-Christian relations, the war: that it could be divinely inspired, deeming the Time emphasize the moral Jewish National Fund bestowed on him or at least papally commended, if not and ethical dimensions of the debate on its Tree of Life Award...
...a devotional Christian tradition that mil- Robert Jaquay A volume of essays written by nuitates against the argument...
...For examly reviewed concepts and a refinement Holocaust Memorial Com- ple, in the fourth century the church of language that, unlike preceding chap- mission, he turned to Elie Wiesel...
...sexuality and creativity without the stig- hundreds of experts from around the ma of temptation or Original Sin...
...works scattered throughout the canon, Milton, Christine de Pizan, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Anita Brookner....(But why SEEING GREEN no Wife of Bath...
...The Next Generation of tentious debate between deregulation adAccording to Norris, the contempo- Environmental Policy vocates who wish to scrap antipollution rary goal for woman emerging out of the Edited by Marian R. Chertow programs wholesale and environmentalstory of the Fall is "to have knowledge and Daniel C. Esty ists who believe such a change of direction and the garden...
...The concluding An Interdisciplinary Vision for ductive discourse is possible...
...Nonetheless, it is already obvious that this book provides a wealth of substantive notions sure to f...
...She ranges widely and reads well...
...There, sensitivity to necessary trade- Wind, Henry Drummond looks up from of Engineering...
...In one hand required...
...In that context, reading the process of goods production, the sershepherded as opposed to merely en- these three remarkable, contrasting vice-based economy, globalization, techjoined by the church...
...Liberation Auschwitz Christian (1989), is an open lettheology, with its preferential option for ter to Pope John Paul II written shortly the poor, is carefully described and ac- after the pope's meeting with Austrian knowledged by Scharper for its sizable Edward McGlynn Gaffney, Jr...
...Land" but in the Rhineland, where they debates contained in Thinking Ecological- Cargas was indefatigable in forging slaughtered thousands of Jews...
...They offer seemingly practical views on what may well be a rocky transition from cursomas rent pollutant-focused regulation...
...The eleventh century witmorality is just as important as biology...
...the economic ap- deeming the Time, and All Creation Is tection of creation is practical ecumenism proach could easily shortchange future Groaning are companions of the same that seeds long-term global environ- needs in the press of immediate con- sort...
...As Commonweal's books brought to mind a scene from the nology, private financing for sustainable recent discussion of Catholic liberalism film Inherit the Wind...
...conferences, fourteen workshops, and Eve and her daughters find resonance dozens of papers are distilled into fifin sacrament...
...Within this framework, than twenty books and scores of arti- take seriously...
...to quarrel with the pope over a particuRedeeming the Time concludes with a when President Jimmy Carter lar incident, Cargas went for much highcall for a new "political theology"-a sought someone of the Jew- er stakes, cataloguing the church's antihighly abstract integration of previous- ish faith to chair the U.S...
...Semitism over the centuries...
...Five thousand commanded...
...on urban sprawl, sustainable development, and geoned since the 1970s...
...cartography of population, various polluAdding to the interest of this balanced and reliable biography is a fore- tants, and biodiversity...
...Process theology, with Harry Cargas, and his intimate inEve through which creation is viewed as a A Biography terviews with them enabled his readers constantly evolving reflection of an all- Pamela Norris to hear these scholars as though they loving God, rather than as a finished New York University Press, $35, 496 pp...
...nated analysis of the tradition, makes ing the theory of evolution to his stu- However, if skillfully brought togeththe need for articulation seem that much dents, the lawyer pauses in gathering er-as Thinking Ecologically is-the readmore acute...
...0 up his things to contemplate two books er will be rewarded for the extra effort central to the controversy...
...twining of the myth of Adam and Eve Thinking Ecologically, the secular book in and their contemporary settings...
...This structure invites derstanding the flow of materials and incorporation of environmental objecendless litigation and results in compli- energy in the production and consump- tives in the engineering of a manufacance that is literal-precisely to the min- tion of goods, the effect on the environ- turing process or design of a product, imum thresholds prescribed by law, and ment will be better understood and con- thus establishing a "green supply chain...
...the role of the human for political and economic progress are cred...
...At your bookstore, or call 800-253-7521 . Fax: 6t6-459-6540 Taking its title from the Epistle to the E-maiI:.sa1r,@eerdnians.com Romans, All Creation Is Groaning is decidedly Judeo-Christian in orientation...
...many readers, the details of his spiritual development are less familiar...
...the Monastic Vision be heard in the future...
...It is too soon to determine whether Thinking Ecologically will succeed in altering the national policy debate...
...One of the principal intended audiences for this Prtnn work will not be determined until the November elections...
...Mentally more than C. Esty introduce their book with a Commonweal 39 March 10, 2000 frankly stated premise...
...This book, however, involves the colTaking up where Merton's own Seven Storey Mountain ends, this pene- laborative, interdisciplinary efforts of a trating biography by Lawrence Cunningham explores Merton's monastic single faculty, the University of Portland...
...People ties and powers far beyond those of its who didn't talk to one another spoke constituent parts...
...were in dialogue with one another...
...global politics word by Father Timothy Kelly, the current abbot of the Abbey of and the environment...
...late Harry James Cargas, who died in Christians to survive as a minority, free Scharper describes this political theolo- 1998...
...11 mental progress...
...All Creation Is Groaning is also an editLAWRENCE S. CUNNINGHAM ed collection of essays exhorting a less compartmentalized, more connected exThough the outlines of Thomas Merton's life are generally known to his amination of environmental concerns...
...There is no intersection of the Conlinuurn Trblishing Conmpany, S76.95, farmers-among others...
...Such discussion is by trees planted in his name now grow out- saders drew first blood not in the "Holy its nature more absolute than the policy side Jerusalem in a parkland...
...there is no belief in an order allows for a wide range of land use, the effect of the automobile, external to the self, transcendent, and approaches...
...stuffs them into his briefcase, then tures and world's resources...
...Under the tutelage of Yale LIHwcrsity Press, 616,271 pp...
...The Gaia hypothesis, for example, regards the entire range of living matter on earth as constituting a A SCHOLAR'S LEGACY single living entity, capable of manipulating the Earth's atmosphere to suit its overall needs, and endowed with facul- links between Jews and Catholics...
...President Kurt Waldheim...
...Life in a Sacred Universe chapters that allow Norris's Eve to throw These new ideas result from a twoEdited by Carol ]. Dempsey and off the yoke of traditional interpretation year initiative of the Yale Center for EnRussell A. Butkus point to the full expression of women's vironmental Law and Policy involving The Liturgical Press, $27.95, 313 pp...
...The moral subtext is enlight- Environment ness leaders, scientists, city managers, ened liberation in a strictly material Stephen Bede Scharper environmentalists, consumer advocates, world...
...WM...
...The protagonist development, market-based incentives, has underscored (November 19, 1999), Henry Drummond (played consum- advances in the science of measurement, the sponsa Christi has not "articulated a mately by Spencer Tracy) stands alone, and so on), chapters in such a collection broadly persuasive vision of women's the last person in the courtroom...
...According to the Islamic offs and constituency building sufficient his thoughts on the secular and the saway of thinking...
...Usually defining In the final moments of Inherit the other environmental topics...
...Fourteen essays, each of which could stand alone, are drawn together and uniCunningham shows that Merton's prolific writings and his continuing fied by means of a biblical passage choinfluence can only be understood against the background of his contem- sen and theological reflection written plative experience as a Trappist monk...
...nurturing a sense Gethsemani, who was himself a novice under Merton...
...concisely written Islamic perspective on I39 JET I i 951...
...his terms as he goes, Scharper examines numerous concepts...
...They did Commonweal 4 1 March 10, 2000...
...the Bible Editors Marian R. Chertow and Daniel Williams School in New London, Connecticut...
...Surely this is a strange omission...
...When Israelis wanted a Catholic for the most part from the general duty gy of the environment as a program of to serve on the international advisory of emperor worship and from other conaction and reflection that seeks to unite board of the Yad Vashem Holocaust flicts with their consciences...
...By un- this approach would emphasize a firm's rigid regulation...
...With a resigned half-smile, halfrace on this planet is that of caretaker implicit...
...lum: hunger and food production...
...Potential for fur- no more...
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