Remembering Holmes Rolston III’s planet

When remembering Holmes Rolston III, we remember the past to anticipate the future. We remember how the 20th century pillaged and polluted nature, filled our atmosphere with noxious gases, hounded animal species to extinction, and heated the planet to the extent of melting glaciers. The indefatigable Holmes Rolston III chronicled humanity’s fall into eco-sin and, like an ancient prophet in Israel, called humanity to repentance. The Colorado philosopher lifted up for us a vision of a just, sustainable, participatory, and planetary society. Who among us might embrace such a vision?

The International Society for Science and Religion (ISSR) reminds us of this sockdolager’s leadership in scholarship and advocacy. Click here for Ted Peters, “Holmes Rolston III: In Memoriam.”

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For Patheos, Ted Peters posts articles and notices in the field of Public Theology. He is a Lutheran pastor and emeritus professor at the Graduate Theological Union. His single volume systematic theology, God—The World’s Future, is now in the 3^rd edition. He has also authored God as Trinity plus Sin: Radical Evil in Soul and Society as well as Sin Boldly: Justifying Faith for Fragile and Broken Souls. In 2023 he published. The Voice of Public Theology, with ATF Press. This year he has published an edited volume, Promise and Peril of AI and IA: New Technology Meets Religion, Theology, and Ethics (ATF) and along with Arvin Gouw an edited collection, The CRISPR Revolution in Science, Religion, and Ethics (Bloomsbury 2025). See his website: TedsTimelyTake.com and Patheos blog site on Public Theology.

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