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Thompson, Andrew Robert Hurst.

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All My Holy Mountain: A Christian Ethical Approach to Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	All My Holy Mountain: A Christian Ethical Approach to Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining./
Author:	Thompson, Andrew Robert Hurst.
Description:	216 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-12(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International74-12A(E).
Subject:	Ethics. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3572003
ISBN:	9781303299179

All My Holy Mountain: A Christian Ethical Approach to Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining.
Thompson, Andrew Robert Hurst.

All My Holy Mountain: A Christian Ethical Approach to Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining. - 216 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-12(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 2013.

Mountaintop removal coal mining (MTR), which has profound environmental and social effects on the Appalachian Mountain region, represents an urgent ethical issue for Christians. In this study I propose a Christian ethical approach to MTR that seeks to address the various intersecting discourses and narratives that shape understanding of this region and this issue. I draw on the ethical thought of H. Richard Niebuhr, whose theocentric ethic integrates a relational theory of value and a view of moral agency as responsible with a steadfast insistence on the centrality of God and God's purposes. Niebuhr's ethic, with its emphasis on relationality and interpretation, provides an ideal foundation for a response to what geographer Stephen Hanna calls the "intertextuality" of Appalachia, those intersecting narratives and images that continue to define the region for many people. I first consider Niebuhr's ethic in comparison to other environmental ethical perspectives and defend its applicability to this ostensibly environmental issue, based on Niebuhr's nuanced understanding of value. I then describe Niebuhr's ethic in greater detail, with particular attention to its anthropology, theology, and understanding of moral action. I propose a Niebuhrian theocentric approach that examines and challenges the church's imaginations of this issue and offers imaginations centered on the purposes of God rather than on finite human interests. I then apply this approach to MTR, considering three specific discursive pairs related to MTR in order to critique them and suggest the ways a theocentric imagination might modify them: power and powerlessness, Appalachian insiders and outsiders, and destruction and reclamation. For each pair, I explore its history with respect to Appalachia and how it is mobilized in the current debate about MTR, especially (but not exclusively) by Christians. Again drawing on Niebuhr's theology, I propose more theocentric imaginations of each: an understanding of power that seeks it in unlikely places, a conception of identity that relativizes boundaries between insiders and outsiders and expands the morally relevant wholes under consideration, and a notion of reclamation for God that attends to the details of extraction and reclamation in light of the mountains' ultimate source and includes symbolic acts intended to mark the mountains as God's. I give examples of each kind of imagination taken from activists and communities directly involved in the debate around MTR in Appalachia. After describing these imaginations and the ways they are enacted in particular contexts, I conclude by suggesting a pattern for theocentric moral action: a set of practices through which the examination and transformation of imaginations and the discernment of God's purposes with respect to the issue at hand. I appeal to the popular notion of "loving the mountains" as an image of a carefully cultivated attention to place that can literally ground the ethical approach I am proposing, and I suggest some general guidelines that I believe emerge from this approach, such as a presumption against MTR, especially in its most reckless forms, and a corresponding presumption against the divisive kinds of rhetoric and actions that have too often shaped this debate. I argue, finally, that my approach, informed by a practiced love of the mountains, can support a strong but nuanced prophetic critique of the most destructive aspects of this practice.

ISBN: 9781303299179Subjects--Topical Terms:

517264
Ethics.

All My Holy Mountain: A Christian Ethical Approach to Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining.
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