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year’s Templeton Prize for Progress Toward Research or Discoveries about Spiritual Realities.
Born in Rockbridge Baths, Va., Rolston is a philosopher and Presbyterian minister who is known as the “father of environmental ethics.” Since 1975 he has been writing about the religious imperative to respect nature.
In the theology vs. science dialogue, Rolston has spared neither religion nor science.
. .Science and religion have usually joined to keep humans in central focus, an anthropocentric perspective when valuing the creation of the universe and evolution on Earth,” Rolston is quoted as saying in a news release on the Templeton Prize Web site.
“I have had to quarrel with both about values intrinsic to nature. Science thought nature to be value-free. Monotheism thought nature is fallen owing to human sin. They agreed that humans were the center of value on Earth. I had to fight both theology and science to love nature.”
Rolston’s 1986 book, “Science and Religion — A Critical Study,” and his 1987 book, “Environmental Ethics,” have been widely hailed, according to the release, “for re-opening the question of a theology of nature by rejecting anthropocentrism in ethical and philosophical analysis valuing natural history.”
Incisive, logical and a bit poetic, Rolston’s books have always given me food for thought about nature, science, and religion. I’m not sure what he’d think about my waterlogged earthworms — whether I’d be violating their rights by moving them to my garden. I guess I’ll leave them where they are to forge their own destiny. With luck, some will find the way to my garden on their own.
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