AN ETHICAL APPRAISAL OF CONVERGENCE AND DIVERGENCE THEORY ON THE ISSUE OF BIRTH CONTROL AND ECOLOGICAL ISSUES

Abstract

The history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings. To a large extent, the physical form and the habits of the earth?s vegetation and its animal life have been moulded by the environment, as Rachael Curion would observe. The theory of convergence, as founded by Clark Kere and his colleagues in 1960, was located in the tradition of functionalist analysis that assumes industrialism as part of a particular society with specific needs for which life solutions will be found, resulting in the development of similar types of society. The carrying capacity of an ecosystem is the number of inhabitants that can support it without suffering permanent damage. When the population exceeds carrying capacity, the environment degrades. As the population continues to increase while carrying capacity decreases, we are running out of earth. For this reason, some ecologists agree that the human race must recognise the limits to economic growth.This paper aims to explore the interaction between birth control and ecological issues, thereby providing some insight into biblical perspectives on birth control and ethical views on birth control and ecological issues. The result of this study reveals the Christian view and its implication in relation to the convergence and divergence on birth control and ecological issues with a drawn conclusion. The paper aims to explore the interaction of gender with diversity, religiosity and spirituality, thereby providing some insight into the differences that influence ethical reasoning about gender. The results of this study suggest that the gender approach to spirituality accurately reflects the powerful consequences of divisive and dichotomous thinking about the experiences of corporeality in spiritual life, anchored in daily life. Indeed, instead of women being more spiritual than men, there is simply a difference in how men and women express their spirituality.