Creation as Promise: A Dogmatic Approach to Eco-Theology in the Anthropocene

The article constructs the emergence of environmental ethics and eco-theology, referring to ecumenical discussions and influences. It then focuses on the difference between two types of eco-theology: one that may be called eco-centric, the other theo-centric. Following the second model and rooted in...

Полное описание

Сохранить в:  
Библиографические подробности
Главный автор: Scherle, Peter (Автор)
Формат: Электронный ресурс Статья
Язык:Английский
Проверить наличие: HBZ Gateway
Journals Online & Print:
Загрузка...
Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Опубликовано: 2022
В: New blackfriars
Год: 2022, Том: 103, Выпуск: 1104, Страницы: 243-258
Нормированные ключевые слова (последовательности):B Barth, Karl 1886-1968 / Экологическое богословие / Учение о сотворении мира / Creatio ex nihilo / Новое создание
Другие ключевые слова:B Karl Barth
B Eco-theology
B New Creation
B Eucharist
B creation ex nihilo
Online-ссылка: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
Parallel Edition:Не электронный вид
Описание
Итог:The article constructs the emergence of environmental ethics and eco-theology, referring to ecumenical discussions and influences. It then focuses on the difference between two types of eco-theology: one that may be called eco-centric, the other theo-centric. Following the second model and rooted in Karl Barth's approach to creation theology, the argument is put forward that a dogmatic approach today has to be based on the concept of ‘creatio ex nihilo’. Creation is not a commodity but utterly dependent on God's ongoing creative speech-act. A revision of the doctrine of election focuses on creation in a Trinitarian perspective. Creation is an eschatological and soteriological category that is grounded biblically in the post-exilic hope for a new creation. As a promise, it is a critique of all utopic and dystopic claims in human history. This has two consequences. First, the need to regain a realistic concept of the political that allows for conflicting aims and that challenges the concept of dominion. And second, to regain a realistic approach to ‘nature’ that defines the ethical concern as ‘habitability’. The fundamental challenge is to live in a disenchanted world while waiting for the world to come. This tension is enacted in the Eucharist.
ISSN:1741-2005
Второстепенные работы:Enthalten in: New blackfriars
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/nbfr.12721