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Theology on a Defiant Earth
Seeking Hope in the Anthropocene
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2022
Summary
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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Copyright year
2022
ISBN-Print
978-1-6669-0322-5
ISBN-Online
978-1-6669-0323-2
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
228
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Edited Book
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Preface No access
Introduction: Theology on a Defiant Earth No access
Chapter 1: The Anthropocene Epoch and Its Meaning No access Pages 1 - 16
Chapter 2: A Rupture in the Earth: An Implicit Augustinian Theology of the Anthropocene No access Pages 17 - 40
Chapter 3: Is It Time for a Theological Step-Change? No access Pages 41 - 58
Chapter 4: Icarus Falling: Theological Anthropology and the Anthropocene No access Pages 59 - 72
Chapter 5: Thy Kingdom Come: Bonhoeffer’s Earthly Christianity as Theology and Ethic No access Pages 73 - 86
Chapter 6: Anthropocene and Ecclesia: The Church as a Political Swarm No access Pages 87 - 108
Chapter 7: Thinking Eschatologically in the Face of the Anthropocene No access Pages 109 - 122
Chapter 8: Apocalypse and the Anthropocene: A Biblical Resource for a New Global Epoch No access Pages 123 - 144
Chapter 9: Redeeming Eden: Biblical Ethics in the Anthropocene No access Pages 145 - 160
Chapter 10: The Serpent in the Garden—Sin and the Anthropocene No access Pages 161 - 174
Chapter 11: Defiant God: The Fate of Christianity’s Holocene Ontology in the Anthropocene No access Pages 175 - 188
Chapter 12: A Climate of Hope? Reflections on the Theology of the Anthropocene No access Pages 189 - 200
