Integral Ecology: Pope Francis and Planetary Thinking

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Presentation by Dr. Christiana Peppard

Thursday, February 4, 2016
7:00pm

Seattle University
Pigott Auditorium
901 12th Ave.
Seattle, WA, USA

How does Catholic social thought draw connections between ecological destruction and social injustice? What does Laudato Si’ say about the realities and dynamics of ecological sin, and what does this mean for human relationships with the Earth and with each other in the twenty-first century?

Dr. Christiana Peppard is an assistant professor of Theology, Science and Ethics in the Department of Theology at Fordham University, where she is also affiliated faculty in Environmental Studies and American Studies. Dr. Peppard is the author of Just Water: Theology, Ethics and the Global Water Crisis (Orbis, 2014) and co-editor of Just Sustainability: Ecology, Technology and Resource Extraction (Orbis, 2015). Her research engages environmental ethics and Catholic social teaching and has appeared in venues ranging from scholarly peer-reviewed journals to TED-Ed, NPR and the Washington Post. More information here.

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