RT Article
T1 Sustainability Hermeneutics
JF Biblical interpretation
VO 31
IS 4
SP 391
OP 414
A1 Nilsen, Tina D.
LA English
YR 2023
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1859000428
AB Ecological issues are not just planet-related issues; they are also people-related issues, and vice versa, as the UN’s 2030 Agenda implies. Hence, ecological aspects in biblical studies should also be studied in relation to social justice, whether this be liberation from oppression, indigenous rights, postcolonialism/neo-colonialism, gender, health, poverty or other. I propose sustainability hermeneutics as the name of an approach which combines perspectives on the environment (ecology), equity (society) and economy. In this article, I emphasise theoretical aspects in developing this new approach, as I discuss different definitions of sustainability and aspects of sustainability theory and show how these may be applied to hermeneutics. I clarify the aims and contributions of sustainability hermeneutics and suggest possible methods and potential material. As an illustration, I present a case study of sustainability hermeneutics applied to a biblical text.
K1 Genesis
K1 Economy
K1 Justice
K1 Equity
K1 Ecological
K1 Sustainability
DO 10.1163/15685152-20231750