Theology on a Defiant Earth (eBook, PDF)

Seeking Hope in the Anthropocene
Redaktion: Cole, Jonathan; Walker, Peter

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Humanity operates like a force of nature capable of affecting the destiny of the Earth System. This epochal shift profoundly alters the relationship between humankind and the Earth, presenting the conscious, thinking human animal with an unprecedented dilemma: As human power has grown over the Earth, so has the power of nature to extinguish human life. The emergence of the Anthropocene has settled any question of the place of human beings in the world: we stand inescapably at its center. The outstanding question-which forms the impetus and focus for this book-remains: What kind of human being stands at the center of the world? And what is the nature of that world? Unlike the scientific fact of human-centeredness, this is a moral question, a question that brings theology within the scope of reflection on the critical failures of human irresponsibility. Much of Christian theology has so far flunked the test of engaging the reality of the Anthropocene. The authors of these original essays begin with the premise that it is time to push harder at the questions the Anthropocene poses for people of faith.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978774834
• Artikelnr.: 74397883

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Cole is assistant director of research at the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture, Charles Sturt University, Canberra. Peter Walker is principal of United Theological College, Sydney.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction: Theology on a Defiant Earth, by Peter Walker and Jonathan
Cole
1.The Anthropocene Epoch and Its Meaning, by Clive Hamilton
2.A Rupture in the Earth: An Implicit Augustinian Theology of the
Anthropocene, by Lisa H. Sideris
3.Is It Time for a Theological Step Change, by Clive Pearson
4.Icarus Falling: Theological Anthropology and the Anthropocene, by Scott
Cowdell
5.Thy Kingdom Come: Bonhoeffer's Earthly Christianity as Theology and
Ethic, by Dianne Rayson
6.Anthropocene and Ecclesia: The Church in Swarming Mode, by Stephen
Pickard
7.Thinking Eschatologically in the Face of the Anthropocene, by Christiaan
Mostert
8.Apocalypse and the Anthropocene: A Biblical Resource for a New Global
Epoch, by David Neville
9.Redeeming Eden: Biblical Ethics in the Anthropocene, by Mark G. Brett
10.The Serpent in the Garden-Sin and the Anthropocene, by Peter Walker
11.Defiant God: The Fate of Christianity's Holocene Ontology in the
Anthropocene, by Jonathan Cole
12.A Climate of Hope? Reflection