Bonhoeffer and Climate Change

Dianne Rayson

doi:10.5771/9781978701847

Summary

Where is the voice of theology in the public discourse around anthropogenic climate change? How do we understand the human relationship to Earth and the ecology of which we are a part? How can we account for the human attempt to dominate nature and the devastation we have caused to our own home?

Dianne Rayson addresses these questions. She uses the creation theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer to examine what it means to be human in the post-Holocene age. Employing a range of Bonhoeffer’s texts, Rayson posits that Bonhoeffer’s Christological theology and this-worldly ethical orientation provide the tools for an Earthly Christianity. She responds to Bonhoeffer’s question, “who actually is Jesus Christ, for us, today?” and proposes a Bonhoefferian ecoethic.

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Copyright year: 2021
ISBN-Print: 978-1-9787-0183-0
ISBN-Online: 978-1-9787-0184-7
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 284
Product type: Book Titles

1. Dedication No access
2. Contents No access
3. Foreword No access
4. Preface No access
5. Acknowledgments No access
6. 1. Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works No access
1. Bonhoeffer’s Theology: Contextual and Systematic No access
2. Gleaning Theological Method No access
3. Notes No access
1. The Theological Problem No access
2. Genesis Creation Narratives No access
3. Theological Responses No access
4. Conclusion No access
5. Notes No access
1. 1. Who is Christ? Revelation and Knowing No access
  2. The Closed Circle of Self No access
  3. The Who Question and Faith No access
2. 1. One Lord No access
  2. Christ Incarnate No access
  3. Christ Crucified No access
  4. The Risen Christ No access
3. 1. Christ as Word No access
  2. Christ as Eucharist No access
  3. Christ as Community No access
4. A Future Form of Christ No access
5. Conclusion No access
6. Notes No access
1. Creation and Fall: History and Context No access
2. God’s Transcendence No access
3. God’s Freedom No access
4. 1. Christocentrism ‘or’ Trinitarianism No access
5. Goodness of Creation No access
6. Conclusion No access
7. Notes No access
1. 1. Sexuality and Dividedness No access
  2. Imago Dei and Formation No access
  3. Adam and Christ: Sin and Forgiveness No access
2. 1. Genesis Accounts of Dominion No access
  2. Self-Assertion as Domination No access
  3. Analogia Relationis: Relational Naming and Dominion No access
3. Conclusion No access
4. Notes No access
1. Thy Kingdom Come: Eschatology of a Changing Climate No access
2. As it is in Heaven No access
3. Creation Myths and the Middle No access
4. 1. Mastery No access
5. 1. Ultimate and Penultimate No access
  2. The Cursed Ground No access
  3. Above and Below No access
  4. Hiddenness of the Kingdom of God No access
  5. Praying for the Kingdom of God No access
6. Being Bound to Mother Earth No access
7. Conclusion No access
8. Notes No access
1. Ethics and Christology No access
2. 1. Privacy contra Piety No access
3. 1. Guilt No access
  2. Law and Freedom No access
  3. Freedom for Others, Suffering for Christ, and Stellvertretung No access
4. 1. The Collective Person No access
  2. Universals: The Divine Mandates No access
5. The Ethical Challenge No access
6. Conclusion No access
7. Notes No access
1. The New Paradigm No access
2. The New Age No access
3. The New Community No access
4. Notes No access
Bibliography No access Pages 249 - 268
Index No access Pages 269 - 282
About the Author No access Pages 283 - 284