Ecospirituality: Sacred Earth, Common Home

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This course is an introduction to the study of ecospirituality within the Roman Catholic tradition. With primary emphasis on Pope Francis’ landmark encyclical Laudato Si’, the learning community will be introduced to some of the basic paradigms of ecospirituality: the sacredness of the earth; the scope of the environmental crisis today; the responsibility of humankind for the environmental crisis; the relationship between care for the earth and care for the poor; integral ecology; anthropocentrism and the rights of all created things.