The Future of Ethics

Reviews
"This book's strength is its scope, which encompasses theology, international human rights law, and innovative approaches to ethical thinking about problems that cross cultural and religious boundaries. Students of Christian ethics - especially those concerned with the links between religion and environmental advocacy/action - will find this extraordinary book very worthwhile."—Choice



"This pragmatic book will appeal . . . to ethicisit-activists . . . [and] anyone who is frustrated by our seeming inability to undertake effective constructive action on the environmental problems plaguing us today. . . . Fine addition to the conversation."—Anglican Theological Review



"Represents a compelling response to the unprecedented problems of climate change . . . charts a challenging new course for religious ethics. . . . Jenkins extends an invitation that other ethicists would do well to accept; in any case, his argument is convincing enough that they will be compelled to respond to it."—Sewanee Theological Review



"Willis Jenkins has written a brilliant and challenging book that deserves a wide readership. His penetrating question, 'What shall we sustain and why?' rings true as a humane call for ever-more engaged reflection from ethicists and environmentalists interested in the future of our shared planetary life."—Mary Evelyn Tucker, Forum on Religion and Ecology, Yale University



"When first I saw the title, The Future of Ethics, I thought it overwrought, if not pretentious. Then I read the book. This is a major, far-reaching, even indispensable, work, for the present as well as the future. Yes, I have my arguments with Jenkins. But if he is as instructed by my exchange as I am by his, both of us will be the wiser about what counts most—achieving a viable way of life for a planet in jeopardy at human hands."—Larry Rasmussen, Reinhold Niebuhr Professor Emeritus of Social Ethics, Union Theological Seminary, New York City



"Rather than a book of despair, Jenkins argues for the possibility of religious ethics charting new strategies of moral agency by working within the traditions that form constantly shifting communities to meet the challenges of climate change and sustainability. Carefully argued, creative, and well-written, Jenkins challenges assumptions. This is a must read book."—Emilie Townes, Dean and Carpenter Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Society, Vanderbilt Divinity School