Faith and the Fate of the Earth with Stephen Bede Scharper
What responsibilities do universities carry in a time of ecological crisis? And what wisdom can faith traditions offer as we rethink how we live on the Earth?
Join the Massey Interfaith Committee for a conversation with Professor Stephen Bede Scharper, environmental ethicist, public scholar, and Senior Fellow of Massey College. Drawing on his work at the intersection of ecology, ethics, and religion, Professor Scharper will explore how higher education can move beyond knowledge production to cultivate ecological ways of life.
Bringing together perspectives from environmental ethics, social justice, and spiritual traditions, this event invites participants to reflect on the moral imagination needed for our shared future and the role universities can play in nurturing it.
Come ready to think, question, and imagine how faith, learning, and responsibility meet in the care of our common home.
Speaker:
Dr. Stephen Bede Scharper is a professor, author, editor, award-winning columnist and public scholar with a special focus on social justice and the environment. He is also Associate Professor at the School of the Environment at the University of Toronto and the Department of Anthropology at University of Toronto at Mississauga. Dr. Scharper’s research and teaching are in the areas of environmental ethics, worldviews and ecology, religion and ecology, liberation theology, sustainability ethics, as well as nature and the city. His books include For Earth’s Sake: Toward a Compassionate Ecology (Novalis), The Natural City: Re-envisioning Human Settlements (co-editor, University of Toronto Press), and Redeeming the Time: A Political Theology of the Environment (Continuum). The Green Bible: Words of Hope for a Suffering World, co-written with Simon Appolloni (Paulist Press/Novalis:2020). He is also co-editor of The Natural City: Re-envisioning Human Settlements (University of Toronto Press)
Dr. Scharper strives to embody the values of public scholarship and a deep commitment to public engagement with environmental and social justice issues. A prolific writer and scholar, he has contributed over 500 reviews and articles to various academic and popular journals, and served as president of the Religious Education Association of the US and Canada, and editor with Orbis Books and Novalis Publishing. Dr. Scharper, a Senior Fellow at massey College, has taught at McGill University, Prescott College, the University of Waterloo, the University of Vermont, and the University of Notre Dame, where he held the John A. O’Brien Chair in Ethics as a Visiting Professor. His biography appears in Who’s Who in Religion? and Who’s Who in Canada?
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