Why this book?
- To understand the relationship between religion, ethics, and the environmental crisis.
- To become acquainted with a Quranic and theological approach to nature.
- To see the environment as a moral issue, not merely a technical one.
- For those interested in jurisprudence, theology, moral philosophy, and environmental studies.
About the book
Theology and the Environment is derived from several lectures delivered by Seyed Mostafa Mohaghegh Damad at international conferences on the relationship between theology and the environment. The book begins with the idea that the environmental crisis is not solely the product of industry, technology, or poor resource management; rather, it has deeper roots in the way humans view nature, God, and their own place in the world.
In this work, Mohaghegh Damad considers the environment a moral and theological issue. In his view, when humans imagine themselves as separate from the ecosystem and independent of divine encompassment, nature becomes an object of possession, consumption, and destruction. Against this perspective, the book strives to present an image of nature as a manifestation of the Divine Word and the arena of human responsibility.
The book is organized into eleven sections and examines topics such as modernity and the desacralization of nature, the relationship between the environmental crisis and worldview, religions and the environment, the Quran's perspective on nature, environmental jurisprudence, and the history of Iranian civilization in its encounter with nature. The extensive use of Quranic verses and references to thinkers such as Avicenna, Al-Farabi, Mulla Sadra, Saadi, Allameh Tabatabai, and William Chittick gives the book an interdisciplinary character.
This work is suitable for readers who wish to understand the environmental crisis beyond technical and managerial language. Enthusiasts of theology, moral philosophy, jurisprudence, Quranic studies, and environmental studies can encounter in this book a religious and ethical framework for rethinking the relationship between humanity and nature.