‘In the Image of God’:
Humanity’s Role within Creation and Ecological Responsibility
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3.1 THE BACKGROUND TO ‘ECOLOGICAL CRISIS’
3.1.2 Looking again at Unit 2’s historical outline
3.1.3 Non-human nature as a scarce resource
3.1.4 ‘Ecological crisis’
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3.2 EVIDENCE FOR ECOLOGICAL CRISIS?
3.2.2 The 1950s and 1960s
3.2.3 The 1970s: deforestation and desertification
3.2.4 The Philippine Catholic Bishops: ‘Our Beautiful Land’
3.2.5 The 1980s: ecological problems on a global scale
3.2.6 1990 to the present: a growing consensus
3.2.7 Ecological destruction and human poverty
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3.3 ECOLOGICAL CRISIS: HAS CHRISTIANITY CAUSED IT?
3.3.1 Lynn White Jr’s argument
3.3.2 A patron saint for ecology
3.3.3 Scriptural texts relating to ecological responsibility
3.3.4 ‘In the image of God’: introduction
3.3.5 ‘In the image of God’: (a) dominion in the good creation
3.3.6 ‘In the image of God’: (b) humans as ‘persons in relation’
3.3.7 ‘In the image of God’: summary
3.3.8 Questions for discussion half way through unit
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3.4 STATEMENTS IN CST ON ECOLOGICAL ISSUES
3.4.2 Pope John Paul II
3.4.3 The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales
3.4.4 Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis
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3.5 ASSESSMENT AND ACTION
3.5.1 Critical overview of CST on ecology: Dorr
3.5.2 Critical overview of CST on ecology: Deane-Drummond
3.5.3 ‘Living life to the full’ with all creation
3.5.4 Review and discussion of Unit 3
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