Environmental Ethics, Ecological Theology, and Natural Selection

Lisa H. Sideris is an assistant professor at the McGill School of Environment and the Faculty of Religious Studies, McGill University, Montreal.

• Introduction This View of Life: The Significance of Evolutionary Theory For Environmental Ethics The Best of All Possible Worlds: Ecofeminist Views of Nature and Ethics The Ecological Model and the Reanimation of Nature Darwinian Equality for All: Secular Views of Animal Rights and Liberation Philosophical and Theological Critiques of Ecological Theology: Broadening Environmental Ethics from Ecocentric and Theocentric Perspectives A Comprehensive Naturalized Ethic Conclusion

This book offers a detailed, thoughtful exploration of alternative scientific and theological conceptions of the environment. -- Amy K. Wolfe Environment Readers of this journal should pay special attention to a book such as this. It is as clear a demonstration as exists of the import of scientific theorizing and the fusion between the culture of the sciences and that of the humanities. -- Michael P. Nelson, University of Idaho Environmental Conservation This critique ought to generate debate and responses...for the questions it asks are crucial to our common project. -- Anna L. Peterson Environmental Ethics There is much to commend in this admirably clear and readable book. -- Michael S. Northcot Ecotheology