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Record Nr.

UNISA996517769903316

Autore

Hasselaar Jan Jorrit

Titolo

Climate Change, Radical Uncertainty and Hope : Theology and Economics in Conversation / / Jan Jorrit Hasselaar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , [2023]

©2023

ISBN

90-485-5848-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (176 p.)

Disciplina

261.88

Soggetti

Climatic changes - Economic aspects

Climatic changes - Religious aspects - Christianity

Ecotheology

Hope

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Stating the Problem: Radical Uncertainty -- 3. Theology and Economics in Conversation -- 4. Jonathan Sacks’ Understanding of Hope -- 5. Transversal Reasoning on Emunah -- 6. Transversal Reasoning on Chessed -- 7. Transversal Reasoning on Change of Identity -- 8. Transversal Reasoning on Narrative -- 9. Conclusions Bibliography -- Bibliography

Sommario/riassunto

Views on climate change are often either pessimistic or optimistic. In this book Jan Jorrit Hasselaar discovers and explores a third way, one of hope. A debate within economics on risk and uncertainty brings him to theological questions and the concept of hope in the work of the late Jonathan Sacks—and to a renewed way of doing theology as an account of the good life. What follows is an equal conversation between theology and economics as has hardly been undertaken in recent times. It emerges that hope is not contrary to economic insights, but remarkably compatible with them. Communication between these fields of expertise can open the way for a courageous and creative embrace of radical uncertainty in climate change. A key notion here is that of a



public Sabbath, or a ‘workplace of hope’—times and places set aside to cultivate inspiration and mutual trust among all parties involved, enabling them to take concrete steps forward.