Theology on a Defiant Earth

Seeking Hope in the Anthropocene

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

AvJonathan Cole,Peter Walker,Jonathan Cole

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-11-01
Mått161 x 237 x 24 mm
Vikt553 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieReligious Ethics and Environmental Challenges
Antal sidor256
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781666903225

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PrefaceIntroduction: Theology on a Defiant Earth, by Peter Walker and Jonathan Cole1.The Anthropocene Epoch and Its Meaning, by Clive Hamilton2.A Rupture in the Earth: An Implicit Augustinian Theology of the Anthropocene, by Lisa H. Sideris3.Is It Time for a Theological Step Change, by Clive Pearson4.Icarus Falling: Theological Anthropology and the Anthropocene, by Scott Cowdell5.Thy Kingdom Come: Bonhoeffer’s Earthly Christianity as Theology and Ethic, by Dianne Rayson6.Anthropocene and Ecclesia: The Church in Swarming Mode, by Stephen Pickard7.Thinking Eschatologically in the Face of the Anthropocene, by Christiaan Mostert8.Apocalypse and the Anthropocene: A Biblical Resource for a New Global Epoch, by David Neville9.Redeeming Eden: Biblical Ethics in the Anthropocene, by Mark G. Brett10.The Serpent in the Garden—Sin and the Anthropocene, by Peter Walker11.Defiant God: The Fate of Christianity’s Holocene Ontology in the Anthropocene, by Jonathan Cole12.A Climate of Hope? Reflection

This is public theology at its best, addressing the global issue of our time. The public challenge of the Anthropocene has been set out to devasting effect by Clive Hamilton. His analysis is thoughtfully explored in this seminal volume of essays by theologians and religion scholars in dialogue with Hamilton. This is also cross-disciplinary theological inquiry at its best, finding hope only after rigorous engagement with ‘Australia’s troubled prophet of the Anthropocene.’ I highly commend its wisdom for our time.