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A 6 page book review. All Creation is Groaning, An Interdisciplinary Vision for Life in a Sacred Universe (1999), edited by Carol Dempsey and Russell Butkus, is a fascinating anthology of essays that collectively offer an alternative vision of the environment, the current ecological crisis and the role of humanity within this complex web. This is truly a multidisciplinary text, as the its title indicates, as the contributors each present arguments that pertain to their particular field and perspective. However, basic themes can be found that run throughout these essays and which serve to illuminate the vision that is the overall point of the book. This review follows several of these themes in order to evaluate the degree of success that the editors achieve in presenting a persuasive, cohesive argument for their defining vision and the reviewer concludes that the editors achieve this purpose. No additional sources cited.
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anthology of essays that collectively offer an alternative vision of the environment, the current ecological crisis and the role of humanity within this complex web. This is truly a multidisciplinary
text, as the its title indicates, as the contributors each present arguments that pertain to their particular field and perspective. However, basic themes can be found that run throughout
these essays and which serve to illuminate the vision that is the overall point of the book. The following review follows several of these themes in order to evaluate the
degree of success that the editors achieve in presenting a persuasive, cohesive argument for their defining vision. First and foremost of the connecting themes is the idea that the
current ecological crisis finds its origin in the Judeo-Christian perspective that humanity has been given dominion over the earth, that is, that the human race stands outside of, rather than
within, nature. In the first chapter, Karen Vaught-Alexander cites a variety of stories and authorities in a manner that calls readers to establish a more personal, compassionate and spiritual connection
to the web of life. This author points out that in an "increasingly urban, post-modern American society," people frequently experience a sense of "separateness or estrangement from the human and
non-human alike" (3). This feeling is contrasted against the sense of "lived inter-relatedness," which is the obtained by acknowledging "responsibility for a physical and spiritual kinship" while acknowledging the "sacred
interdependence of all in Creation" (Vaught-Alexander 3). In the second chapter, Norah Martin explores the roots of modern attitudes toward nature and locates this not only in the Judeo-Christian
tradition, but more recently, in the epistemology of the modern world, which originated in the seventeenth century (23). This author explains how the modern concept of "knowing" requires that there
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