Thomas Berry and the Reshaping of Catholic Environmentalism

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" Thomas Berry and the Reshaping of Catholic Environmentalism "
Mark Graham

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1086107
Doc. No	:	LA129736
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15685357-20201006‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Mark Graham
Title & Author	:	Thomas Berry and the Reshaping of Catholic Environmentalism [Article]\ Mark Graham
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology
Date	:	2020
Volume/ Issue Number	:	24/2
Page No	:	156–183
Abstract	:	This article criticizes the so-called “stewardship paradigm,” which forms the theological basis for Catholic environmentalism, and argues that Thomas Berry’s cosmology provides a more theologically palatable platform for developing Catholic environmentalism. The substantive ethical shift emerging from Berry’s cosmology is the displacement of human well-being as the proximate norm for human behavior in favor of promoting biodiversity on planet Earth. In other words, biodiversity is the primary ethical good, and human well-being is secondary. This article criticizes the so-called “stewardship paradigm,” which forms the theological basis for Catholic environmentalism, and argues that Thomas Berry’s cosmology provides a more theologically palatable platform for developing Catholic environmentalism. The substantive ethical shift emerging from Berry’s cosmology is the displacement of human well-being as the proximate norm for human behavior in favor of promoting biodiversity on planet Earth. In other words, biodiversity is the primary ethical good, and human well-being is secondary.
Descriptor	:	biodiversity
Descriptor	:	Catholic environmentalism
Descriptor	:	cosmology
Descriptor	:	ethical normativity
Descriptor	:	ethics
Descriptor	:	human well-being
Descriptor	:	Thomas Berry
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15685357-20201006‬