Stephen Bede Scharper
Biographic Data
| ID | 4779728 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Bede Scharper |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen Bede |
| FAMILY NAME | Scharper |
| SIGNATURE | SCHARPER S B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Gospel of Jesus Green: Home for All, Not Just for Humans
From Creation Chaos to Creaturely Solidarity: The Comingling of Faith and the Fate of the Earth
Natural City: Re-Envisioning the Built Environment
The Fabric of Faith-Based Environmentalism in Canada
As our global environmental malaise has deepened, so has interest in potential contributions by faith communities to sustainability discourses and activities. While several studies have mapped various eco-theologies and worldviews that speak to environmental problems, this research has been largely limited to Judeo-Christian and U.S. -based groups. This study explores the work of a variety of faith-based organizations ( FBO s) doing environmental…
The Natural City: Re-envisioning the Built Environment
Urban and natural environments are often viewed as entirely separate entities - human settlements as the domain of architects and planners, and natural areas as untouched wilderness. This dichotomy continues to drive decision-making in subtle ways, but with the mounting pressures of global climate change and declining biodiversity, it is no longer viable. New technologies are promising to provide renewable energy sources and greener designs, but …
The Genetic Commons: Resisting the Neo-liberal Enclosure of Life
The notion of a ‘genetic commons’ is a broad-based, multi-faceted response to a particular constellation of technological, cultural, economic, political, ethical, and legal developments of the past three decades. Prompted principally by advances in biotechnology and the heretofore unprecedented patenting of life forms, the genetic commons movement seeks to critique and resist the commodification and commercialization of ‘nature’ and to establish …
Green Dreams: Religious Cosmologies and Environmental Commitments
Whereas religions around the world are being challenged to reexamine both their tenets and practice in the ominous wake of ecological deterioration, one particular challenge they face is cosmological. As a global consumer society becomes more prominent, religious ecological thinkers such as “geologian” Thomas Berry assert that a cosmology of commodification is supplanting not only individual religious cosmologies but also the human appreciation o…
Democracy, Cosmology, and the Great Work of Thomas Berry
In this review essay, Thomas Berry's The Great Work is contextualized within Berry's overarching cosmological project. Special attention is paid to Berry's critique of economic corporations, as well as his interpretation of globalization and his assessment of an alleged decline of the nation state, claims that run counter to certain contemporary social scientific research offering more complex depictions of such phenomena. The critique of democra…
Gaia and God: An Ecofeminist Theology of Earth Healing, by Rosemary Radford Ruether
The Universe Story: From the Primordial Flaring Forth to the Ecozoic Era, by Brian Swimme and Thomas Berry
Inseparable Companions: Religion and Liberty in the Thought of Alexis de Tocqueville
We are, in both the United States and Canada, experiencing a broad-based crisis that permeates our political, economic, social, cultural and religious lives.For people interested in speaking theologically about a "God of life" within a North American context, in using a grammar of justice, compassion, and in considering the perspective of those on the margins of society, this crisis has made such a task more challenging-and urgent.How, for exampl…
Iraq: Military Victory, Moral Defeat, by Thomas C. Fox
The Genetic Commons: Resisting the Neo-liberal Enclosure of Life
The notion of a ‘genetic commons’ is a broad-based, multi-faceted response to a particular constellation of technological, cultural, economic, political, ethical, and legal developments of the past three decades. Prompted principally by advances in biotechnology and the heretofore unprecedented patenting of life forms, the genetic commons movement seeks to critique and resist the commodification and commercialization of ‘nature’ and to establish …
Inseparable Companions: Religion and Liberty in the Thought of Alexis de Tocqueville
We are, in both the United States and Canada, experiencing a broad-based crisis that permeates our political, economic, social, cultural and religious lives.For people interested in speaking theologically about a "God of life" within a North American context, in using a grammar of justice, compassion, and in considering the perspective of those on the margins of society, this crisis has made such a task more challenging-and urgent.How, for exampl…
Iraq: Military Victory, Moral Defeat, by Thomas C. Fox
The Universe Story: From the Primordial Flaring Forth to the Ecozoic Era, by Brian Swimme and Thomas Berry
Gaia and God: An Ecofeminist Theology of Earth Healing, by Rosemary Radford Ruether
Democracy, Cosmology, and the Great Work of Thomas Berry
In this review essay, Thomas Berry's The Great Work is contextualized within Berry's overarching cosmological project. Special attention is paid to Berry's critique of economic corporations, as well as his interpretation of globalization and his assessment of an alleged decline of the nation state, claims that run counter to certain contemporary social scientific research offering more complex depictions of such phenomena. The critique of democra…
Green Dreams: Religious Cosmologies and Environmental Commitments
Whereas religions around the world are being challenged to reexamine both their tenets and practice in the ominous wake of ecological deterioration, one particular challenge they face is cosmological. As a global consumer society becomes more prominent, religious ecological thinkers such as “geologian” Thomas Berry assert that a cosmology of commodification is supplanting not only individual religious cosmologies but also the human appreciation o…
The Genetic Commons: Resisting the Neo-liberal Enclosure of Life
The notion of a ‘genetic commons’ is a broad-based, multi-faceted response to a particular constellation of technological, cultural, economic, political, ethical, and legal developments of the past three decades. Prompted principally by advances in biotechnology and the heretofore unprecedented patenting of life forms, the genetic commons movement seeks to critique and resist the commodification and commercialization of ‘nature’ and to establish …
The Natural City: Re-envisioning the Built Environment
Urban and natural environments are often viewed as entirely separate entities - human settlements as the domain of architects and planners, and natural areas as untouched wilderness. This dichotomy continues to drive decision-making in subtle ways, but with the mounting pressures of global climate change and declining biodiversity, it is no longer viable. New technologies are promising to provide renewable energy sources and greener designs, but …
Natural City: Re-Envisioning the Built Environment
The Fabric of Faith-Based Environmentalism in Canada
As our global environmental malaise has deepened, so has interest in potential contributions by faith communities to sustainability discourses and activities. While several studies have mapped various eco-theologies and worldviews that speak to environmental problems, this research has been largely limited to Judeo-Christian and U.S. -based groups. This study explores the work of a variety of faith-based organizations ( FBO s) doing environmental…
From Creation Chaos to Creaturely Solidarity: The Comingling of Faith and the Fate of the Earth
The Gospel of Jesus Green: Home for All, Not Just for Humans
Philosophy (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Environmental ethics (3 works) · Physics (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Astronomy (2 works) · Berry (2 works)