Marie I. George, class of ‘79. I recently published a book on environmental stewardship entitled Stewardship of Creation: What Catholics Should Know about Church Teaching on the Environment (Indianapolis: Saint Catherine of Siena Press, 2009), 144pp, softbound, $14.95. The text started out as a capstone project for a MA in pastoral theology. I discovered that most Catholic theologians writing about the environment made very little reference to Church teaching. My book draws upon fourteen Vatican documents, plus nine Episcopal documents, and especially on the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church. It is a short book intended for a general audience, with discussion questions at the end of most chapters. The book highlights how the Church in her wisdom steers a middle course between the anthropocentric attitude that we can do whatever we please with the earth and its non-human inhabitants and the misanthropic attitude that we are just one species among other species, and that fewer of us would be better. I’m not going to tip my hand here as to what I say about global warming. The book is available directly from the publisher whose website is:http://www.saintcathpress.com/?0301ae00 or from amazon at: http://www.amazon.com/Stewardship-Creation-Catholics-Teaching-Environment/dp/0980028426/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265653763&sr=8-1 Thank you, Marie
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