Francis of assisi and the diversity of creation

Environmental Ethics

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 311-320

  Hughes, J Donald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

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EID: 0008468623     PISSN: 01634275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5840/enviroethics199618321     Document Type: Article

References (52)

1. Francis of Assisi, "Il Cantico di Frate Sole," quoted in Roger D. Sorrell, St. Francis of Assisi and Nature: Tradition and Innovation in Western Christian Attitudes toward the Environment (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), p. 100. Translation by J. Donald Hughes.
2. Lynn White, "The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis," Science 155 (1967): 1203-07.
3. John B. Cobb, Jr., Is It Too Late?: A Theology of Ecology, rev. ed. (Denton, Tex.: Environmental Ethics Books, 1995), p. 31.
4. Edward A. Armstrong, Saint Francis, Nature Mystic: The Derivation and Significance of the Nature Stories in the Franciscan Legend (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973).
5. Susan Power Bratton, Christianity, Wilderness, and Wildlife: The Original Desert Solitaire (Scranton: University of Scranton Press, 1993), esp. pp. 217-27.
6. H. Paul Santmire, The Travail of Nature: The Ambiguous Ecological Promise of Christian Theology (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1985), esp. pp. 106-09.
7. Roger D. Sorrell, St. Francis of Assisi and Nature: Tradition and Innovation in Western Christian Attitudes toward the Environment (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988).
8. Jerome, "The Life of Paul the First Hermit," in Helen Waddell, ed., The Desert Fathers (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1957), pp. 34-38, cited in Bratton, Christianity, Wilderness, and Wildlife, pp. 166-67.
9. Jerome, "The Life of Paul the First Hermit," in Helen Waddell, ed., The Desert Fathers (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1957), pp. 34-38, cited in Bratton, Christianity, Wilderness, and Wildlife, pp. 166-67.
10. Roberta Hill-Burdett, "Can Saints Preserve Us? Reconsidering St. Francis' View of Nature," The Maine Scholar 7 (Autumn 1994): 201.
11. I Celano 80; Psalm 22:6.
12. 1 Celano 84; Bonaventura, Legenda Maior 10:7.
13. 2C elano 111.
14. Il Cantico di Fraie Sole, 1:27.
15. Matthew Fox, Original Blessing (Santa Fe: Bear, 1983).
16. Genesis 2:7.
17. Ecclesiastes 3:19-20.
18. Lothario dei Segni (Pope Innocent III), On the Misery of the Human Condition, ed. Donald R. Howard, trans. Margaret Mary Diaz (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1969), pp. 6-7.
19. 1 Celano 80; Romans 8:21.
20. Bonaventura, Legenda Maior 8:6.
21. "Il Cantico di Frate Sole," lines 20-21.
22. Armstrong, Saint Francis: Nature Mystic, p. 164, n. 7; see I Celano 61; I Celano 81.
23. Mark 16:15.
24. "Salutatio Virtutum," lines 1:39-45.
25. "Il Cantico di Frate Sole," line 5.
26. Ibid., lines 11, 19.
27. Ibid., lines 20-22, trans. Roger D. Sorrell, p. 101.
28. I Celano 80-81.
29. II Celano 167; Bonaventura, Legenda Maior 8:8.
30. I Celano 61.
31. George D. Economou, The Goddess Natura in Medieval Literature (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1972).
32. White, "Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis," p. 1207.
33. William R. Cook, Francis of Assisi: The Way of Poverty and Humility (Wilmington, Del.: Michael Glazier, 1989), p. 53.
34. II Celano 171; Legenda Perugina 84; Bonaventura, Legenda Maior 8.9.
35. II Celano 171; Legenda Perugina 84; Bonaventura, Legenda Maior 8.9.
36. II Celano 168; Bonaventura, Legenda Maior 8.10.
37. Speculum Perfectionis 118; Armstrong, Saint Francis: Nature Mystic, p. 10.
38. Speculum Perfectionis 118; Armstrong, Saint Francis: Nature Mystic, p. 10.
39. John B. Cobb, Jr., Is It Too Late? p. 48.
40. Legenda Perugina 49.
41. Admonitions 5.
42. Legenda Perugina 43.
43. Speculum Perfectionis 114.
44. Ibid.
45. Eric Doyle, St. Francis and the Song of Brotherhood (New York: Seabury Press, 1981), p. 399.
46. II Celano 165.
47. Speculum Perfectionis 118.
48. Gary Paul Nabhan, Songbirds, Truffles, and Wolves: An American Naturalist in Italy (New York: Penguin Books, 1993), pp. 181-90.
49. Edward O. Wilson, The Diversity of Life (Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1992); and Biophilia (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984).
50. Edward O. Wilson, The Diversity of Life (Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1992); and Biophilia (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984).
51. Bryan G. Norton, Why Preserve Natural Variety? Studies in Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987).
52. Vandana Shiva et al., Biodiversity: Social and Ecological Perspectives (London: Zed Books 1991).