A Unit 3 – Contents

‘In the Image of God’:
Humanity’s Role within Creation and Ecological Responsibility

3.1.1 Introduction to Unit 3

3.1.2 Looking again at Unit 2’s historical outline

3.1.3 Non-human nature as a scarce resource

3.1.4 ‘Ecological crisis’

3.2.1 Introduction

3.2.2 The 1950s and 1960s

3.2.3 The 1970s: deforestation and desertification

3.2.4 The Philippine Catholic Bishops: ‘Our Beautiful Land’

3.2.5 The 1980s: ecological problems on a global scale

3.2.6 1990 to the present: a growing consensus

3.2.7 Ecological destruction and human poverty

3.3.1 Lynn White Jr’s argument

3.3.2 A patron saint for ecology

3.3.3 Scriptural texts relating to ecological responsibility

3.3.4 ‘In the image of God’: introduction

3.3.5 ‘In the image of God’: (a) dominion in the good creation

3.3.6 ‘In the image of God’: (b) humans as ‘persons in relation’

3.3.7 ‘In the image of God’: summary

3.4.1 Beginnings

3.4.2 Pope John Paul II

3.4.3 The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales

3.4.4 Pope Benedict XVI

3.5.1 Critical overview of CST on ecological responsibility

3.5.2 ‘Living life to the full’ with all creation

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