Saving Creation: Nature and Faith in the Life of Holmes Rolston III

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Holmes Rolston III has long been recognized as the father of environmental ethics. Internationally renowned for the synthesis he has found in evolutionary biology and Christianity, Rolston has followed an immensely interesting life course. In this compelling biography, Rolstons story is traced from childhood to the present, detailing the process by which he has come to hone his profound philosophies. Culled from countless interviews with Rolston himself, along with his family and colleagues, this biography is both an engaging life story and a compendium of Rolstons thoughts on the value of nature, resource management, aesthetics, international development, and the relationship of culture to nature, wilderness, and natural theology.

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"This lively intellectual biography fully examines the biblical and academic traditions from which Rolston's philosophy developed, and the worldwide movement which developed from it." -- Publishers Weekly

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Christopher J. Preston is the author of Grounding Knowledge: Environmental Philosophy, Epistemology, and Place, the editor of Engineering the Climate: The Ethics of Solar Radiation Management, and the coeditor, with Wayne Ouderkirk, of Nature, Value, and Duty: Life on Earth with Holmes Rolston III. He is a noted expert in environmental philosophy and the ethics of emerging technologies and teaches philosophy at the University of Montana in Missoula.