Hope: Being Human in the Anthropocene
Given the calamities involved in climate change and the impact it is having – and will continue to have, on lives driven towards subsistence – what can be said about the goodness of creation? This essay explores how privileged theologians might rethink the notion of the common good in a situation wh...
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Sprache: | Englisch |
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2023
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International journal of systematic theology
Jahr: 2023, Band: 25, Heft: 3, Seiten: 397-412 |
IxTheo Notationen: | HC Neues Testament NBC Gotteslehre NBD Schöpfungslehre NCG Ökologische Ethik; Schöpfungsethik |
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Zusammenfassung: | Given the calamities involved in climate change and the impact it is having – and will continue to have, on lives driven towards subsistence – what can be said about the goodness of creation? This essay explores how privileged theologians might rethink the notion of the common good in a situation where the majority are under-privileged. It argues for a need for imaginative investment to develop empathy, not sympathy; a need to listen in ways that are attentive and tending; and for a learning to accompany, such that dependence can be empowering when recognised and practised as mutual. Theologically, the sharing and accompaniment necessary has to be appreciated as inhering to the existence of all things, such that relationality and dependence are living expressions of the goodness of creation. Such sharing and accompaniment are expressions and incarnations of the uncreated goodness of the Triune God, operating in and through the ongoing processes of creation. |
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ISSN: | 1468-2400 |
Enthält: | Enthalten in: International journal of systematic theology
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/ijst.12622 |