ISBN:
9783031418006
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 223 p. 9 illus.)
Edition:
1st ed. 2023.
Series Statement:
Issues in Science and Religion: Publications of the European Society for the Study of Science and Theology 7
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Keywords:
Religion and science.
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Theology.
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Environmental education.
Abstract:
Is Sustainability Utopian? Complex challenges and concrete action principles -- Justifying Sustainability: scientific necessity, sacred duty, or political process? -- What, Exactly, Needs to be Sustained amidst a Changing Climate? -- How Can Theology Contribute to our Sustainability Goals? -- Environmentalism, Sustainability, and the Meaning of Technology -- Desacralising Nature through a Deflationary Concept of Causation, and the Search for Alternatives -- Entrusted with Creation: God’s therapeutic trust in humanity for creation care -- The Theological Preconditions of a Sustainable World View -- The Dignity of the Human Person through the Theology of Continuous Creation -- Flourishing – Now and for the Ages to Come: Discerning ethical wisdom in the book of nature -- Humanizing the Biosphere’s Internal Logic -- The Sacred in Nature Conservation: A European Perspective -- Appraising Nature: A pan-experiential approach to nature’s agency -- Ecological Accompaniment: From connectivity to closeness in an age of loneliness -- The Paradox of Sustainable Prisons: How liberation theology might contribute to the question of environmentally-friendly prisons -- Birds, Lilies and the Gorilla: An eco-theological reading of Jesus’s teachings in conversation with Daniel Quinn -- New Opportunities for Church Action Towards Sustainability in the Light of Alternative Theological Narratives for Science -- Human Sustainability in the Age of Technology: A theological proposal on technomoral human futures -- Eastern Orthodoxy and Glocal Sustainability: Towards shaping a modern Church organizational culture -- Ecolibrium: The Quranic paradigm for global sustainability.
Abstract:
This volume brings together contributions from the 2022 conference of the European Society for the Study of Science and Theology, held in Ålesund, Norway, to address the many urgent questions raised by the concept of global sustainability. Scholars from the fields of philosophy, theology and the sciences offer a variety of perspectives on global sustainability, and on how the need for it can best be effected and sustained. The material assembled here – covering the roots of the present ecological crisis, as well as means for addressing it from ecological, societal, and both Christian and Islamic theological perspectives – inform discussions of these questions both within the academy and in wider public fora. This text appeals to students and researchers in the field.
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-031-41800-6
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