“Welcome to the End of the World!”: An Ecumenism for the Next Crisis
As the COVID-19 pandemic is shattering the world, it can also be considered a “dress rehearsal” for the next crisis: climate change. The pandemic showed the worst faces of the global hegemonic system, but the next crisis will signify a crisis that is unthinkable. The global discourse has been demons...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2021
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The ecumenical review
Year: 2021, Volume: 73, Issue: 4, Pages: 509-523 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KDJ Ecumenism NCD Political ethics NCG Environmental ethics; Creation ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
local communities
B homodiversity B Diversity B earthly ecumenism B Ecological Crisis B Crisis |
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| Summary: | As the COVID-19 pandemic is shattering the world, it can also be considered a “dress rehearsal” for the next crisis: climate change. The pandemic showed the worst faces of the global hegemonic system, but the next crisis will signify a crisis that is unthinkable. The global discourse has been demonstrated as a fiction, as global treaties, organizations, and systems were not able to respond to the global crisis, leaving local communities to survive a global problem through their own means. After the failure of the global, we must turn to the local as a way of transforming every paradigm into a culture of life. Homodiversity – against hegemonic identities – needs to emerge. The existence of many coexisting identities, epistemologies, and ways of living must be recognized in order to imagine another reality after the pandemic. It is in the local arena that real transformation can be made. Ecumenism is transcendental in this task as a model of communitarian relationships that can also transform political and economic systems. Karl Barth’s ecumenical theology is of key importance. |
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| ISSN: | 1758-6623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The ecumenical review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/erev.12637 |