Faith, Theology, and Practice for the Impending Global Crisis
It is generally assumed that our advanced, technological civilization will find a way to surmount our planet’s multifaceted climate and ecological crisis. In everyday thinking, it is virtually unthinkable to assume that our environmental situation could lead to a catastrophic outcome in which our ci...
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| 格式: | 電子 Article |
| 語言: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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Pastoral psychology
Year: 2025, 卷: 74, 發布: 1, Pages: 29-48 |
| Further subjects: | B
Theology
B Civilization B Practical Theology B Climate B Extinction B Theocentrism |
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| 總結: | It is generally assumed that our advanced, technological civilization will find a way to surmount our planet’s multifaceted climate and ecological crisis. In everyday thinking, it is virtually unthinkable to assume that our environmental situation could lead to a catastrophic outcome in which our civilization collapses and the planet becomes uninhabitable for humans. Of course, no one knows what the future holds, and humanity may yet find creative ways to surmount the crisis. But there are powerful political, economic, and cultural forces clearly putting us on a catastrophic trajectory unless fundamental (and increasingly difficult and improbable) changes are made. If we were, however, to contemplate, as one possibility, a truly worse-case scenario, it would seem important for religious persons to ask how religion and theology might function under such extreme conditions. Two fundamental questions might then arise: (1) From a practical perspective, how might religious faith be best practiced as conditions radically worsen? (2) And how might religion and theology best interpret such a fateful trajectory of decline and destruction? The author proposes a practice-oriented concept of practical theology, and certain related revisions of traditional Christian theological teachings, that may be helpful in answering such questions. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-6679 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Pastoral psychology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s11089-024-01176-1 |
