Environmental Justice and Climate Change

Jame Schaefer is associate professor of systematic theology and ethics at Marquette University. Her recent publications include Theological Foundations for Environmental Ethics: Reconstructing Patristic and Medieval Concepts and Confronting the Climate Crisis: Catholic Theological Perspectives.Tobias Winright is associate professor of theological ethics at Saint Louis University. He is the editor of Green Discipleship: Catholic Theological Ethics and the Environment, and co-editor of Violence, Transformation, and the Sacred.

Readers will surely share the editors' hope that the environmental concern of Benedict XVI, developed from similar concerns of John Paul II, will be further advanced by Pope Francis. . . .In these pages, those who still need convincing should discover environmental concern at the heart of Catholic life and thought.

• Preface: Message on the 2010 World Day of Peace: “If you want to cultivate peace, protect creation”Pope Benedict XVIIntroduction: Celebrating and Advancing Magisterial Discourse on the Ecological CrisisJame Schaefer Part I. Human and Natural Ecology/Human Life and DignityChapter 1: Bonaventure in Benedict: Franciscan Wisdom for Human EcologyKeith Douglas WarnerChapter 2: If You Want Responsibility, Build Relationship: A Personalist Approach to Benedict XVI's Environmental VisionMary A. AshleyChapter 3: Natural Law and the Natural Environment: Pope Benedict XVI's Vision Beyond Utilitarianism and DeontologyMichael BaurPart II. Solidarity, Justice, Poverty, and the Common GoodChapter 4: Human, Social, and Natural Ecology: Three Ecologies, One Cosmology, and the Common GoodScott G. HefelfingerChapter 5: Commodifying Creation? Pope Benedict XVI's Vision of the Goods of Creation Intended for AllChristiana Z. PeppardChapter 6: The Grammar of Creation: Agriculture in the Thought of Pope Benedict XVIMatthew WhelanPart III. The Sacramentality of CreationChapter 7: The Way of Wisdom: "Keep hold of instruction; do not let go; guard her, for she is your life" (Prov 3:14)Elizabeth GroppeChapter 8: The World as God’s Icon: Creation, Sacramentality, LiturgyKevin W. Irwin Chapter 9: Pope Benedict XVI’s Cosmic Soteriology and the Advancement of Catechesis on the EnvironmentJeremiah ValleryPart IV. Our Catholic Faith in ActionChapter 10: Discernment of the Church and the Dynamics of the Climate Change Convention John T. BrinkmanChapter 11: American Lifestyles and Structures of Sin: The Practical Implications of Pope Benedict XVI’s Ecological Vision for the American Church David CloutierChapter 12: American Nature Writing As a Critically-Appropriated Resource for Catholic Ecological EthicsAnselma Dolcich-AshleyAppendix A: Keynote Address at the Catholic Consultation on Environmental Justice and Climate ChangeThe Most Reverend Bernard UnabaliAppendix B: Homily: Catholic Consultation on Environmental Justice and Climate ChangeThe Most Reverend Bishop Donald Kettler