"Gaia and God"

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This paper discusses environmentalist feminist literature.The paper analyzes the book, "Gaia and God", by Rosemary R. Ruether, which illustrates an understanding of Christian theology combined with an analysis of environmentalism in a way that ultimately produces a number of workable, helpful suggestions for better human interactions with each other and the environment.

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"In Gaia and God, Ruether offers a critique that is solidly based upon Christian theology. In examining three cornerstone creation stories of Western thought (the Enuma Elish, Plato's Timeaus, and Genesis), Ruether argues that early Christianity's melding of these three sources has resulted in the formation of two assumptions. The first is that nature was originally an untouched paradise that was a benign human environment. The second was that human sin brought about human mortality. Further, she argues that these two assumptions have created an environment were human attitudes of domination over nonhuman creation are inextricably linked with the Christian concept of sin."

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