Ten Green Commandments of Laudato Si’
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The publication of Laudato Si’—a papal encyclical on a defining issue of our times—was a moment of great importance for Catholics and for the world. Now Fr. Joshtrom Kureethadam, one of the church’s top experts on the document, provides a thoughtful, passionate, and highly accessible commentary on its key ideas and themes. Faithfully attentive to the outline of the six chapters of the encyclical, Fr. Joshtrom has also insightfully arranged the book according to the See-Judge-Act methodology that is increasingly used in spirituality, moral theology, and the social sciences.
If Pope Francis is right when he insists that the solution to our environmental problems cannot be found only in technocratic approaches by governments and institutions, but by a wide and thoughtful embrace by all of us of our common responsibility, then Fr. Joshtrom’s book is precisely what we need at this time.
Foreword ix
Preface xv
Introduction: “Francis, Go and Repair My House Which, as You See, Is Falling into Ruin” 1
Part One
SEEING
(Understanding the Crisis of Our Common Home) 15
Green Commandment I: Take Care of Our Common Home in Peril 19
Green Commandment II: Listen to the Cry of the Poor 35
Part Two
JUDGING
(Discerning the Crisis of Our Common Home) 51
Green Commandment III: Rediscover a Theological Vision of the Natural World 55
Green Commandment IV: Recognize That the Abuse of Creation Is Ecological Sin 73
Green Commandment V: Acknowledge the Human Roots of the Crisis of Our Common Home 89
Part Three
ACTING
(Responding to the Crisis of Our Common Home) 105
Green Commandment VI: Develop an Integral Ecology 111
Green Commandment VII: Learn a New Way of Dwelling in Our Common Home 127
Green Commandment VIII: Educate toward Ecological Citizenship 143
Green Commandment IX: Embrace an Ecological Spirituality 161
Green Commandment X: Cultivate Ecological Virtues 181
Conclusion: “The Zeal for Your House Shall Inflame Me” 211