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What on earth is wrong with the world? Five Christian voices on hamartology and ecology [PDF]

, 2021
Philosophiae Doctor - PhDThis study is situated in the context of Christian ecotheology, which offers both a Christian critique of ecological destruction and an ecological critique of Christianity.
Cloete, Newton Millan
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Holy Grandeur Enough for All

Gema Teologika, 2017
Natural degradation is not merely a competition between ecology and economy. The destruction of nature is closely related to religiosity and human relationships to fellow human beings, the environment, and God. Ecotheology becomes a self-criticism of the
Novriana Gloria Hutagalung
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Are Ashes All That Is Left? Grace Jantzen’s Aesthetics and the Beauty of Biodiversity

Religions, 2022
As the climate crisis continues to worsen and it becomes apparent that the earth faces its sixth mass extinction event, it is more important than ever to find an alternative to the disordered thinking that prevents meaningful environmental reform in ...
Dorothy C. Dean
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Children and Climate Anxiety: An Ecofeminist Practical Theological Perspective

Religions, 2022
As awareness grows of global warming and ecological degradation, words such as “climate anxiety”, and “eco-anxiety” enter our vocabularies, describing the impact of climate change on human mental health and spiritual wellbeing.
Joyce Ann Mercer
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Ecotheology as a Paradigm for the Renewal of Christian Religious Education in Building Ecological Ethics and Responsibility [PDF]

Pharos Journal of Theology
The global ecological crisis calls for a theological and pedagogical paradigm that responds to environmental degradation. This study explores ecotheology as a paradigm for renewing Christian Religious Education in shaping ecological ethics and ...
Esti Regina Boiliu
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“There Is No ‘Away:’” Ecological Fact as Jewish Theological Problem

Religions, 2022
The “second law of ecology”—that all matter remains part of the earthly ecosystem—poses a theological challenge to Jewish monotheisms. Climate change has further underscored the urgency of understanding and acting in light of the interconnected ...
Mara H. Benjamin
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Newman, Catholicity, and the Church Today: On the Development of Christian Principles through Dialogue with the World

Religions, 2021
This article explores the following question: Given the Roman Catholic Church’s present-day teaching on catholicity, how can St. John Henry Newman’s historically conscious, imaginative view of catholicity assist Catholic Christians today in understanding
Christopher Cimorelli
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PERSONHOOD AND CREATION IN AN AGE OF ROBOTS AND AI: CAN WE SAY “YOU” TO ARTIFACTS?

Zygon®, Volume 55, Issue 2, Page 347-360, June 2020., 2020
Abstract This article explores the extent to which the I‐You relation should be applied to domains other than the human and the divine focusing particularly on artifacts and technology. Drawing first on the work of Martin Buber, Gabriel Marcel, and Martin Heidegger, I contend that the I‐You tradition has maintained I‐You relations with objects are ...
Michael S. Burdett
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Rethinking Environmentalism and Apocalypse: Anamorphosis in The Book of Enoch and Climate Fiction

Religions, 2021
Biblical apocalypse has long been a source of contention in environmental criticism. Typically, ecocritical readings of Biblical apocalypse rely on a definition of the genre focused on eschatological themes related to species annihilation precipitated by
Simone Kotva, Eva-Charlotta Mebius
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Taking hands to save creation: An African perspective on ecotheology

Verbum et Ecclesia
African and Western thought differ in their approaches to the eco-dilemma. The primary difference is rooted in a distinct worldview. A predominant Western dichotomy between the material and the spiritual, and the sacred and profane, results in an ...
Jaco Beyers
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