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Preston does make exceptions to this practice by providing chapter and verse citations for passages from the Bible.
On page 74, Preston writes: “One prominent historian of ideas claimed that this (the exhortation of human domination over the planet in Genesis) made Christianity into ‘the most anthropocentric (human-centered) religion the world has ever seen.’”
Preston seems to think that a Bibliography of Rolston’s publications, provided at the end of the book, is sufficient.
To give him some credit, Preston does refer to Mill’s and Bentham’s views on the possible extension of ethics to the non-human world, but says their views on this topic “were generally ignored by professional philosophers.” (p. 120)
A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold (Oxford University Press, 1949), p. 224.
Again, it would be nice to be told who the historian is and the source of the quotation.
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Seale, D. Christopher J. Preston: Saving Creation: Nature and Faith in the Life of Holmes Rolston III. J Agric Environ Ethics 23, 279–288 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10806-009-9201-6
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