Living Entanglement and Revisionist Ecotheology
Religious engagement in efforts to confront our ecological crisis are hampered by longstanding theological understandings of non-human nature. Elizabeth A. Johnson's Ask the Beasts: Darwin and the God of Love (London: Bloomsbury, 2014) is an example of a recent ecotheology that critiques the hi...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge
[2019]
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Theology and science
Year: 2019, Volume: 17, Issue: 4, Pages: 511-523 |
| IxTheo Classification: | FD Contextual theology NBD Doctrine of Creation NBE Anthropology NCG Environmental ethics; Creation ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
Hierarchy
B community of creation B Ecology B value dualisms B Integrity |
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| Summary: | Religious engagement in efforts to confront our ecological crisis are hampered by longstanding theological understandings of non-human nature. Elizabeth A. Johnson's Ask the Beasts: Darwin and the God of Love (London: Bloomsbury, 2014) is an example of a recent ecotheology that critiques the hierarchical ontology of being and the underlying ethic of dominion/stewardship characteristic of traditional Christian understanding. In this paper I consider the theological and ethical success of Johnson's revisionist ecotheology, and raise three residual criticisms of her attempt to undercut the dualist conceptual underpinning of traditional theologies of non-human nature. |
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| ISSN: | 1474-6719 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Theology and science
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/14746700.2019.1670965 |