While the traditional Christian engagement with environmental ethics too often begins and ends with Genesis, this project joins numerous recent efforts by biblical scholars to identify new foundations on which Christians can make ethical choices about creation. Wisdom literature, a largely untapped resource, offers a unique point of entry for environmental ethics. Despite their marginalization in ethical debates on the environment, the biblical sages have a great deal to say about the inseparability of Gods creation and righteous living--observations that must then be brought into...
While the traditional Christian engagement with environmental ethics too often begins and ends with Genesis, this project joins numerous recent effort...