This accessible and timely book uses a Christian perspective to explore ethical debates about nature.

• A detailed exploration of humanity's treatment of the natural world from a Christian perspective.
  
• Covers a range of ethical debates, including current controversies about the environment, animal rights, biotechnology, consciousness, and cloning.
  
• Sets the immediate issues in the context of underlying theological and philosophical assumptions.
  
• Complex scientific issues are explained in clear student-friendly...

This book offers a critical and constructive analysis of the contribution of Jurgen Moltmann to the field of ecotheology. Moltmann is one of the foremost and influential contemporary theologians of our time, but his specific contribution to ecotheology has received relatively scant attention in the secondary literature. The author deals sensitively with the relevant scientific aspects necessary in order to develop an adequate theology of the natural world. She also offers a careful and constructive analysis of the specific systematic theologies of creation, humanity, eschatology, and Trinity...