Bats, viruses, and human beings: a chiropteraphilic theodicy
This project offers an expansive theological understanding of the relationship between suffering and the divine while providing grounds for constructive human responses to suffering. To do this, I use an ecomimetic investigation of bats - selected because of their relationship to the COVID-19 pandem...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2021
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| In: |
Scottish journal of theology
Year: 2021, Volume: 74, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-11 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Suffering
/ Faithfulness
/ God
/ Bats
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| IxTheo Classification: | NBC Doctrine of God NBD Doctrine of Creation |
| Further subjects: | B
Finitude
B Covid-19 B Interdependence B Suffering B attention epistemology B ecomimetic interpretation |
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| Summary: | This project offers an expansive theological understanding of the relationship between suffering and the divine while providing grounds for constructive human responses to suffering. To do this, I use an ecomimetic investigation of bats - selected because of their relationship to the COVID-19 pandemic - to explore the complexity of creaturely suffering in an interdependent world. Next, I offer an explanation of vulnerable suffering that is grounded in God's faithfulness to all of the creation that God called good. Rather than using this explanation to excuse human indifference to suffering, I argue that embracing one's creaturely finitude authorises constructive responses to suffering. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-3065 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Scottish journal of theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0036930621000016 |