RT Article
T1 Confession and Hope: Ekklesia’s Task in the Global Emergency
JF Religions
VO 11
IS 2
A1 Gorringe, Timothy 1946-
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1726100871
AB Humanity is currently faced with deadly dangers that could bring about the breakdown of civilization, and even the end of human life on earth in short order. The Marxist and Green thinker Rudolf Bahro spoke of a ‘logic of salvation’, which involved a return to the idea of God. Ekklesia arose as a witness to such a logic of salvation. It can be understood as a social movement, that sketches out a prefigurative politics that can then be realised. The contemporary church needs to recover this understanding, adopting climate change as a confessional issue that defines its common life. This could be part of a practical logic of salvation.
K1 Confession
K1 Consumerism
K1 Ekklesia
K1 global emergency
K1 Neo-liberalism
K1 strength and weakness
DO 10.3390/rel11020097