The Tangled Bank
This book addresses the central moral and religious question of our time: what does it mean to be a responsible moral creature in an age imperiled by the radical expansion of human power?
Awarded the John Templeton Prize for Theological Promise, a prestigious international prize for a first book, The Tangled Bank regrounds theological ethics in an ecological account of human moral and religious experience. In response to the fundamental moral challenge of our time, the expansion of human power beyond the scope of existing moral theories, the book argues for a return to the basic questions of moral anthropology: What does it mean to be a moral creature in a more-than-human world? Hogue develops an innovative response to that question by fusing elements of Hans Jonas's post-theistic phenomenology of life with James M. Gustafson's theocentric religious naturalism.