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Rubicon Crossings: Working at the Margins of Ecotheology and Ecophenomenology
ReligionsTrying to answer the challenges proposed by the Laudato si’ encyclical letter and its proposed “integral ecology,” this essay deals with the possible interactions between ecotheology, ecophenomenology, and cultural anthropology, outlining an ...
Piero Carreras
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A Commentary on Thomas Berry’s Befriending the Earth, 33 Years on
Religions, 2023 The author was approached by the Passionists in the United Kingdom, a Roman Catholic order in which the ecological theologian Thomas Berry had been a priest, to seek an opinion on the continuing significance of his book, Befriending the Earth.
Alastair McIntosh
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HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2014 Theology as understanding reality – thinking differently, acting differently: Notes about the theology of Johan Buitendag. The article investigates the theological contours delineated from the publications of the systematic theologian Johan Buitendag ...
Andries G. van Aarde, Tanya van Wyk
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Playing God With Animals? The Meaning of Animals in a More Than Human World
Dialog, Volume 64, Issue 4, Page 189-195, Winter 2025.ABSTRACT Unprecedented human power over the lives and welfare of trillions of animals calls for existential, ethical, and theological reflection. This article examines and discusses how the relationship between humans and non‐human animals can be understood in a Christian context.
Emil Børty Nielsen
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A Spiritual Dimension of Human–Animal Relations?
Dialog, Volume 64, Issue 3, Page 144-151, Autumn (Fall) 2025.ABSTRACT A close relationship with nature and animals is widely acknowledged to support human physical, social, and mental health, but is more seldom considered relevant for human spirituality. Using theological resources, this paper argues that some human–animal relations may possess spiritual qualities.
Per T. Sangild, Pui Him Ip
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COLONIALISM, HAN & ECO-THEOLOGY
Scriptura, 2013 Today, nations exhibit imperial behaviour but not like the ancient agriculture driven landed empires or the 18-19th century mercantile empires. The land and trade divisions are not as clearly segregated as in the earlier ones, but Imperial nations do ...
Grace Ji-Sun Kim
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Attunement and the Sense of Significance in Dianthropocene Life
Dialog, Volume 64, Issue 1, Page 21-29, Spring 2025.ABSTRACT The concept of the Anthropocene rightly points to the damaging effects of human agency on ecosystems and the climate. In this article, I argue that the agency of nature nonetheless continues to play a central role on the human sense of significance. For this purpose, I introduce and discuss the Danish philosopher‐theologian K.E.
Steen Hjul Lybke
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QalamunaThis study aims to analyze ecotheology as a new direction in the politics and policy of Islamic religious education in Indonesia, particularly in responding to contemporary ecological challenges.
Dian Febrianingsih +2 more
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Imago Dei: We are but dust and shadow
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2021 This article is about the imago Dei, proceeding from an ecotheological perspective. Both the ‘image of God’ and the ‘likeness of God’ are examined based on the understanding that God is a relational God.
Annelien C. Rabie-Boshoff +1 more
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A Theology of Inevitable Climate Change
Dialog, Volume 64, Issue 1, Page 30-35, Spring 2025.ABSTRACT This paper takes as its premise that climate change is now inevitable. From that beginning, it starts to work out how we can think about hope, environmental work, and pragmatic responses in light of theology and ecological science. Drawing on the resources of paleoclimate and restoration ecology, this paper offers theologically inspired ...
Bethany Sollereder
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