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Healing Earth

Healing Earth, a free online environmental textbook written by over 90 contributors around the world and sponsored by leaders of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) worldwide, is one of four winners from a field of 367 submissions from 30 countries for the Expanded Reason Awards.  The Theology Department's own Mike Schuck is editor of the Healing Earth textbook and Co-Director of the International Jesuit Ecology Project. Organized by the University Francisco de Vitoria Madrid and the Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI Foundation, the Expanded Reason Awards “seek to support and acknowledge those professors and researchers who are working to broaden the horizons of rationality through a dialogue between the sciences and philosophy and theology, grounded in the certainty that the fundamental questions of human life cannot be ignored by scientific rationality.”

For more information on the Expanded Reason Awards

Pope Francis Greets Winners of "Expanded Reason" Awards

Healing Earth is a project of the International Jesuit Ecology Project that addresses the most pressing environmental issues of our time, including loss of biodiversity, natural resource exhaustion, transition to sustainable energy, the quality and availability of food and water, and global climate change. All of these issues threaten our common home, disproportionately affecting the marginalized people of the world by having enormous impacts on the global economy, social violence, climate refugees, and world poverty. Healing Earth raises students' scientific awareness, probes the ethical implications of our environmental crises, challenges students to think deeply about the meaning of the natural world in our lives, and calls all of us to action that heals the Earth.