Catholic Morality: Ecology

Caring for this earth is a duty of our faith and a way to respect God’s creations. Regardless of a person’s background, culture, or religious preferences, we are all called to protect the planet on which we live to preserve the future of the earth. As stewards and stewardesses called by God to share the responsibility for the future of the earth, we must work to protect all of creation for the sake of future

As global warming intensifies, glaciers melt and forests reduced，more and more people begin to be concerned about environment problem. Environment is the fundamental of our existence，so we need protect environment. Paul H. Rubin in his article “Environmentalism as religion” says “But there is another sense in which environmentalism is becoming more and more like a religion: It provides its adherents with an identity”(399). He thinks environmentalism like a religion, and environmentalism and religion have many same characteristic. I agree Rubin’s opinion. Like religion, environmentalism has difference tribe, environmentalist like a missionary, environmentalism and religion both have food taboos and they also

“You shall not pollute the land in which you live, for blood pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, except by the blood of the one who shed it. You shall not defile the land in which you live, in the midst of which I dwell, for I the Lord dwell in the midst of the people of Israel.” Numbers 35: 33-34

I believe that we need to think of the Earth as a gift and a home. We must take care of our Earth but our personal health must come before Earth’s. Lastly, our decision making should be guided by the Bible and my common sense. Our Earth is truly a gift and it is a good gift from God. Genesis 1:31 states, “God saw all that we made, and it was very good”. We need to change the way that we look at the Earth. Normally if we get a really nice gift we treasure it and do our best to protect it. This is the same mindset that we need to have about our land. Secondly, we do need to recognize that we have dominion over the Earth. God created us to take care of the Earth. In the beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth and then he created man to be stewards of it. It is important not to get to crazy and do things to harm the Earth but we must also remain healthy. Humans come before the land and they always should. Lastly, when living on Earth we must make good decisions. These decisions should be based on what our teachings tell us and our common sense. It is just common sense that cutting down a tree or throwing a wrapper out the yard will harm the Earth. This semester I have learned so much, and thought deeply about many topics. I know that the Earth is a gift and we are so blessed to have this beautiful creation to live in. The many field trips that we went on made me realize many things about our Earth that I didn’t realize. Specifically the wastewater treatment we went on made me realize how much waste we produce and it makes me feel like we are hurting our Earth. Too often people don’t think about the things that they are doing to our Earth. Psalm 8:6 states, “You made him ruler over the works of your hands; you put everything under his feet”. The Bible states many times in context that we are to care for the Earth we have been

Through the study of scripture, Christian movements and the views of historical and contemporary figures, it can be said that Christian ethical teachings have a significant influence on the lives of its adherents. A prime example of the effects of these teachings is the nature and practice of Christian environmental ethics. The Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy defines environmental ethics as the discipline in philosophy that studies the moral relationship of human beings to, and also the value and moral status of, the environment and its nonhuman contents. Although each denomination has its own unique manner of judging ethical understanding, the basic and fundamental structures of their environmental

The story of Naboth’s vineyard shows that just as the King wanted or coveted the land in which Naboth owned, it does not give him the right to seize it. That would be a violation of two of the Ten Commandments. The first, is “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife or his male servant or his female servant or his ox or his donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor” (Exodus 20:17, NASB). In the repetition of the Ten Commandments “his field” is included in the commandment (Deuteronomy 5:21, NASB). Second, “You shall not steal” (Exodus 20:15, NASB). The King tries to buy the land or to give him a different piece of land, but Naboth does not want to sell or relocate to a new land, the land was his father’s inheritance and obviously had inherent value to him. This is where the story embarks on a dark turn. Jezebel decides to procure matters into her own hands and plots to acquire Naboths land regardless of whether or not he wants to sell it or give it up. She plots to perform “legal plunder” since she seeks to use the law against Naboth for her and the Kings

The natural world is a place of wonderful, beautiful, complex processes forever intertwining and unraveling: cells regenerating and dying, water falling and evaporating with the power to replenish and destroy lives, and each life clinging to the skin of our planet inevitably sees it in a way unique to their own eyes, and their own mind. The Bible is very clear on many, many things about our rich, fascinating earth. God created the earth. in Genesis chapter one God made the earth and set it in motion. He made man in His own image, which is the basis for our special value: we

Creation care is the idea that God calls Christians to care for the Earth. Even though all Christians acknowledge that God created the Earth, not everyone agrees about the responsibilities Christians have for this creation. In Genesis 1:28, “God blessed them, and said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.” For some, this verse means that God created this Earth so that we can use it how we wish. Even though “dominion” does imply you have control and power over the Earth, it is crucial to understand that this does not mean we are called to destroy this world. God claimed everything he made “was very good” so he would not have wanted for his creation to be destroyed (Genesis 1:31). Instead, this specific role God gives to humans requires respect and appreciative behavior. For, damaging God’s creation would mean insulting the very thing he designed for us.

Discussing Critically Religious and Secular Ethical Arguments About Environmental Issues In his book, 'The End Of Nature', Bill McKibben highlights the fact that we are destroying the natural environment at an increasing rate, for our own short-term gain. Since the day that man created agriculture, and industrialisation to follow, the imbalance between man and nature has been growing[1/2]. This has been accompanied by a massive population increase, tripling in the twentieth century alone[3]. Human pressure on nature has never been so great.

The Ancients cared for and respected natural environments like it was their own child, but do we? The answer is no with pollution, deforestation, and erosion it is obvious that we do not care for and nurture nature like the Ancients. In the movie Brother Bear their religion and way of life is based off of animals. In this movie a bear is killed for revenge, and for punishment the Hunter, Koda, is turned into a bear to live the life and learn to respect the animal that he killed. In our culture

An environmentalist is a person worships the environment and cares for nature more than people. Christians and others share the common perception that environmental ethics exist for how human beings should relate to the land, the free market perceptive and the environmental perceptive. Humans share a relationship with all creations of the earth. But as humans, they find themselves as having a role in the created order which is they have a closer relationship with the creator who has charged them with acting responsible within his creation. Even allowing a common complaint of environmental activists is that Stewardship means that the earth was made exclusively because of human beings - that having dominion upper nature is the same as

Me: Yes, the Catholic Church believes that deep down your mother is still there, since she is still in fact a person. Now the doctors claim that your mom is what is know as brain dead, meaning she can never wake up but the church believes that your mother is very much alive in her state. There is a very small chance that your mom can wake up but because of the extent of her injuries I do not think that likelihood is very high. Yet there is a small chance that by the grace of God your mother will be spared from this affliction and will wake up.

We are a part of nature, but we are the “masters” and the rest of nature is only there for our personal advantage. This is the message that Christianity sends humanity. Before the Christian faith people worshipped nature and respected it and now we have no respect for its feelings. It was believed that through nature we could communicate to the Deity and it was as a result treasured. However in Western society nature holds only the value of profit.

Recently, Pope Francis released his encyclia on “preserving the creation” in an attempt to get the catholic community to be stewards of the land. This eco friendly encouragement seemed surprising but is this really the first time that Judeo Christian theology has been in support of environmentalism? Christianity and environmentalism seem to attract two different types of followers, especially here in the United States, but that might not be the case. Although the ideals and teachings of these two groups may seem to clash, there might be more in common that most would think. This being said, how do Christians use their theology when it comes to concerns about the environment?

Classical literature can basely be divided into several stylistical altering movements, at times contradictions of one another, that have all at once developed the jagged path that has led us into the modern age. One of the most apparent of these contradictions in stylistic and philosophical viewpoints can be seen with the emergence of Transcendentalism, then Anti-Transcendentalism, which placed several key writers in the limelight of cultural criticism to varying degrees of success. The leaders of these literary milestones, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Nathaniel Hawthorne, respectively, saw the worlds about them through entirely different lenses and thus deconstructed the fabrics of their reality to better suit these view-points. Though the movement would fall chiefly out of fashion, like with other movements before it, such as the true forms of the Romantic and Gothic movements in England, the classics remain, giving us a pattern of what, in exactly, the ideals were of both the Transcendentalist movement as well as its counter.