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Titolo: Issues in Science and Theology : Global Sustainability / / Michael Fuller [and three others], editors Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2023]
©2023
Edizione: First edition.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (234 pages)
Disciplina: 201.65
Soggetto topico: Religion and science
Sustainability - Religious aspects
Persona (resp. second.): FullerMichael <1963->
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Preface -- Introduction -- Contents -- Contributors -- Chapter 1: Is Sustainability Utopian? Complex Challenges and Concrete Action Principles -- Introduction -- Sustainability - An 'Exhausted' Concept? -- Abandon the Concept of Sustainability? -- Abandon Liberal Democracy? -- Call for More Radical Action -- Can We Really Know What Is Sustainable Long-Term? -- Barriers to Sustainability -- Cognitive Limitations - As an Example of a Barrier Within the Human Condition -- Social Inequality - As an Example of a Social Barrier -- Institutional Barriers - Related to Market, Politics, Legal Systems -- Market Failure -- Insufficient Global Governance for Global Issues -- Insufficient Legal Systems to Account for Future Issues -- Principles for Sustainable Action -- Natural Principle: Prefer Local, Seasonal, Plant-Based and Labor-Intensive Food -- Contemplation as a Personal Principle -- John Rawls' Difference Principle as a Society Related Principle -- Maintain or Increase Option Diversity as a System Related Principle -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: Justifying Sustainability: Scientific Necessity, Sacred Duty, or Political Process? -- Introduction -- A Scientific Necessity? -- A Moral Obligation? -- Sacred Duties? -- A Global Religious-Naturalist Narrative? -- Political Processes and Practical Philosophy -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: What, Exactly, Needs to Be Sustained Amidst a Changing Climate? -- A Word About Words -- The Bucharest Conference (1974) -- Secular Discourse on Sustainability -- Continued Ecumenical Discourse on Sustainability -- Some Concluding Reflections -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: How Can Theology Contribute to Our Sustainability Goals? -- Introductory Remarks -- Reviewing Available Sources -- The Historical Dimension -- Theology and the Future of Humanity.
The Role of Religion Regarding Beliefs and Believing -- Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5: Environmentalism, Sustainability, and the Meaning of Technology -- Introduction -- Creation and Human Creativity -- The Concupiscence of Reason -- Disappearing Nature -- Environmentalism in an Unfinished Universe -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6: Desacralizing Nature Through a Deflationary Concept of Causation, and the Search for Alternatives -- White's Thesis -- The Deflationary Model of Causation -- The metaphysics of Powers -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7: Entrusted with Creation: God's Therapeutic Trust in Humanity for Creation Care -- Introduction -- Divine Trust in the Creation Narratives of Genesis -- Therapeutic Trust & -- Moral Reform -- Gratitude Mechanisms, Trust, and the Social Functions of Gratitude -- The Practical Applications and Benefits of This Theological Framework -- Upshot 1 - Addressing the Motivation Problem -- Upshot 2 - The Modularity of Divine Therapeutic Trust -- Bibliography -- Chapter 8: The Theological Preconditions of a Sustainable World View -- Introduction -- The Nominalist Revolution -- Hamann's Aesthetica in Nuce -- Hamann's Critique of Kant -- Theology of Creation as Philosophy of Science -- Bibliography -- Chapter 9: The Dignity of the Human Person Through the Theology of Continuous Creation -- Introduction -- The Challenge of Time -- The Criterion of Novelty -- Theological Questions -- Several Human Natures? -- Human Nature and God's Image in Creation -- Human Nature and Divine Incarnation -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 10: Flourishing - Now and for the Ages to Come: Discerning Ethical Wisdom in the Book of Nature -- Introduction -- Ecological Sin: Missing the Mark of Flourishing -- Viewing Nature as Revelatory -- Nature as Normative: A Canon of Natural Laws -- Conclusion -- Bibliography.
Chapter 11: Humanizing the Biosphere's Internal Logic -- Introduction -- Thinking in Terms of Networks -- Embedding Creativity into a Cycle -- From Interiority to Sustainability -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 12: The Sacred in Nature Conservation: A European Perspective -- Introduction -- Science and Religion in the Conservation Literature: From Conflict to Dialogue to Partnership -- Methods and Data Extraction -- The Dynamics of the Sacred in the Conservation Literature on SNSs in Europe -- Re-Creating the Sacred in New SNSs -- Reenacting the Sacred in Ancient SNSs -- Mutating Meanings of the Sacred in Former SNSs -- Final Remarks -- Bibliography -- Chapter 13: Appraising Nature: A Pan-Experiential Approach to Nature's Agency -- Introduction -- Nature's Agency -- Actor, Agent & -- Author -- Human Agency Makes Nature an Actor -- Human Authoring Makes Nearby Nature an Agent -- Pan-Experiential Effects on Nature as a Whole -- Human Responsibility -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 14: Ecological Accompaniment: From Connectivity to Closeness in an Age of Loneliness -- Introduction -- Ecological Accompaniment: Bodily Vulnerability and Participation in Rendering God Visible -- The Struggle of Loneliness and the Absence of Relational Connectivity -- Loneliness a New Frontier of Pastoral Care -- Loneliness as an Opportunity for Interdisciplinary Research and Care -- A New Relational Manner: Ecological Accompaniment and Sustainability -- Bibliography -- Chapter 15: The Paradox of Sustainable Prisons: How Liberation Theology Might Contribute to the Question of Environmentally-Friendly Prisons -- Introduction -- The Paradox of Sustainable Prisons -- Why Theology? -- A Theology for the Abolition of Prisons -- Defining Liberation -- Conclusion -- Bibliography.
Chapter 16: Birds, Lilies, and the Gorilla: An Eco-theological Reading of Jesus' Teachings in Conversation with Daniel Quinn -- Introduction -- Matthew 6:25-34 - Implications for an Ethic of Christian Discipleship -- Daniel Quinn: Takers, Leavers, and Anxiety over the Future -- Concluding Thoughts and Implications -- Bibliography -- Chapter 17: New Opportunities for Church Action Towards Sustainability in the Light of Alternative Theological Narratives for Science -- Introduction -- Towards a Theology of Science -- Lessons from the History of Science -- A Participative Geometry of Relationship in the Imago Dei -- From Theology to Sustainable Practice -- Bibliography -- Chapter 18: Human Sustainability in the Age of Technology: A Theological Proposal on Technomoral Human Futures -- TS's Ontology -- Ectypal Ontology -- The Sustainability of the Ectype -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 19: Eastern Orthodoxy and Glocal Sustainability: Towards Shaping a Modern Church Organizational Culture -- Introduction -- Orthodox Theology and SDGs -- Eastern Orthodox Church Organizational Culture and SDGs -- Orthodox Praxes and SDGs -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 20: Ecolibrium: The Quranic Paradigm for Global Sustainability -- Introduction -- Defining the Formula for Global Sustainability: Ecognitions -- The Equigenic Use of Technology -- A New Economics: Equigenical Economics - Equi-nomics -- Rise of the Ecological Age -- Bibilography -- Index.
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ISBN: 3-031-41800-X
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Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
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Serie: Issues in science and religion ; ; Volume 7.