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32789
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English
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Faith and the Ethics of Climate Change (book chapter)
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Perspectives on Mormon Theology: Scriptural Theology
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Greg Kofford Books, Inc
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153-179
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"This essay performs... an experiment in relation to the challenges posed by environmental degradation generally and global climate change more specifically. I will begin by exploring the environmental issues raised by contemporary science at some length in order to then turn to the text of the Book of Moses. I do not mean to suggest that an environmental reading provides an exhaustive account of the meaning of our restored accounts of the creation or that scripture should be subordinated to political or scientific concerns. Instead, my reading is a faithful attempt to see what fruit the restored account of the creation might bear in relation to one of the most pressing problems in the world today. I say 'faithful' because it is a reading done in trust that latter-day revelations, as I hope to show, manifest their divine origins, in part, by proving their ongoing relevance to the chief concerns of our times." [Author]