Environmental Ethics

Seminary:  Austin Theological Seminary

Location:   100 E. 27th Street Austin, Texas 78705

Course number:  TH.208

Instructor:  Dr. William Greenway

Website: https://www.austinseminary.edu/

Course Description

This course focuses on issues in environmental ethics from a Christian perspective. Issues that may be considered include climate change, distribution and accessibility of potable water, preservation of habitat, valuing and treatment of non-human animals, endangered species, genetic engineering, environmental racism, population, conservation, wilderness, as well as the use, preservation, and distribution of limited resources. The course attends both to major contemporary secular ethical and legal approaches to issues and to major Christian ethical approaches.