A closer look at an influential environmental and spiritual thinker
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Winner of the Templeton prize, Holmes Rolston III, has spent his career in an attempt to reconcile science and religion. Preston (philosophy, University of Montana) interviewed Rolston for this intellectual biography as well as studying Rolston's work. Rolston, the son and grandson of ministers, felt that there should be no argument between Christian belief and the theory of evolution. In his theories, human beings are a part of the organic whole that is nature and as such, we have a responsibility to live in harmony with it. He sees evolution as a painful process but feels that God nudges life toward more complex, better, forms with humanity as the end result so far. Ralston is aware that this is not a complete answer. For Christians, the problem of sin and redemption, for instance, is not adequately addressed. Nevertheless, the image of a "cruciform nature" struggling ever upward, might encourage some to a great awareness of environmental problems. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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