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Environmental arts in a theological context.

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Abstract

Catholic higher education today recognizes and seeks to respond to the environmental mandate expressed in the document "On Catholic Universities." This article describes an approach to teaching theology environmentally through the incorporation of environmental arts and literature in courses whose design emphasizes experiential learning and interdisciplinarity.

Catholic higher education's environmental mandate

Over the course of twenty six years, during the pontificate of Pope John Paul II, a kind of environmental mandate emerged within Roman Catholicism, in continuity with the larger context of the world religions and their collective ...

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