Michael Hogue uses Darwin’s image of a tangled bank for biotic diversity and interrelationships among species as a metaphor to frame the inter-twined concerns of his book. Like the multiple forms of life inhabiting Darwin’s bank, Hogue shows the interrelationships be-tween biological theory, ethics, and theology. He also uses the tangled bank as a rhetorical framing for comparing the work of Jewish philosopher Hans Jonas and Christian theologian James M. Gustafson in an effort to craft an ecotheological ethics of responsible participation that will address one of our most press-ing environmental ethical problems today—“the conjunction of radical power and moral uncertainty.” (xv)

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