Reviews
"An engaging introduction to environmental ethics told through one man’s compelling story."
— The Green Life Sierra Club Newsletter
"This lively intellectual biography fully examines the biblical and academic traditions from which Rolston’s philosophy developed, and the world-wide movement which developed from it."
— Publishers Weekly
"A testimony to Rolston's richly productive life."
— Colorado State Magazine
"Preston details Rolston's intellectual development skillfully enough that it unfolds as gracefully as the plot of an adventure novel."
— San Antonio Express-News
"Readers interested in the intersection of faith and science, of theology and biology, will benefit."
— The Presbyterian Outlook
“Saving Creation is a beautifully written biography of the renowned environmental ethicist Holmes Rolston. Here we are invited into a remarkable journey of philosophical depth and spiritual struggle. Indeed, the story of Rolston’s intellectual and personal formation provides insight beyond one individual into a new human awakening of our moral response to the natural world in which we dwell.”
— Mary Evelyn Tucker, Yale University Forum on Religion and Ecology
“Holmes Rolston is a crucial figure in the development of environmental philosophy, and this book does a superb job of explaining, in literal and figurative terms, where he’s coming from. It’s full of insights.”
— Bill McKibben, author of Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
“Saving Creation is a fine examination of the intersection of the personal, the political, the philosophical, and the religious, all in the context of the life and work of a leading environmental thinker. Just as the environmental crisis defies conventional disciplinary boundaries, so does Rolston’s work—and
“Holmes Rolston is that rarity among university teachers: he crosses the walkways between the schools and learns from all of them. He studies science and theology with an eye to seeing their linkages. Above all, he practices his knowledge of our environmental crisis by actively caring for the majestic ecosystems of the American West. He believes, with the Christian New Testament, in ‘doing the truth.’ To read this biography is to hope that his tribe will increase.”
— Donald W. Shriver Jr., president and professor emeritus of ethics, Union Theological Seminary,“Few thinkers working today are as important as Holmes Rolston. I love the idea of a biography of a philosopher written by another philosopher—someone who knows the thrust and parry of philosophical discourse. This book is so well done, so clearly and accurately written. The balance of life and work, the reality of Rolston as a human being and a thinker, the struggle to come to terms with an appropriate human/nature relationship—all presented in a wonderful package.”
— Michael P. Nelson, coeditor of The Great New Wilderness Debate