عنوان

Peter Singers Interpretation of Christian Biblical Environmental Ethics

Number

LA129639

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

Peter Singers Interpretation of Christian Biblical Environmental Ethics

General Material Designation

[Article]

First Statement of Responsibility

Cara Beed, Clive Beed, Cara Beed, et al.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Leiden

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Brill

Text of Note

Peter Singer's (1990 and 1993) interpretations of Biblical texts dealing with the natural world are evaluated in the light of recent Biblical scholarship. The texts in question are among those in the Bible relating to Christian ethical teaching about the natural world. The specific texts Singer examined concern the meaning of dominion and the flood of the earth in the book of Genesis in the Old Testament, particular teaching by the apostle Paul in the book 1 Corinthians in the New Testament, and certain actions by Jesus in the New Testament book of Mark. Singer's interpretations have a lengthy pedigree commonly used to hold Biblical teaching partly responsible for adverse Western attitudes to nature. This article argues that such interpretations contradict a deal of recent Biblical scholarship on the texts at issue. Peter Singer's (1990 and 1993) interpretations of Biblical texts dealing with the natural world are evaluated in the light of recent Biblical scholarship. The texts in question are among those in the Bible relating to Christian ethical teaching about the natural world. The specific texts Singer examined concern the meaning of dominion and the flood of the earth in the book of Genesis in the Old Testament, particular teaching by the apostle Paul in the book 1 Corinthians in the New Testament, and certain actions by Jesus in the New Testament book of Mark. Singer's interpretations have a lengthy pedigree commonly used to hold Biblical teaching partly responsible for adverse Western attitudes to nature. This article argues that such interpretations contradict a deal of recent Biblical scholarship on the texts at issue.

Date of Publication

1998

Physical description

53-68

Title

Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology

Volume Number

2/1

International Standard Serial Number

1568-5357

Cara Beed

Clive Beed

Call Number

10.1163/156853598X00055

Electronic name

p

[Article]

275578

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Y