Bonhoeffer and Climate Change Theology and Ethics for the Anthropocene

Title: Bonhoeffer and Climate Change Theology and Ethics for the Anthropocene
Creator: Rayson, Dianne
Relation: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781978701830/Bonhoeffer-and-Climate-Change-Theology-and-Ethics-for-the-Anthropocene
Publisher: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Resource Type: book
Date: 2021
Description: 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
Description: 1st ed.
Subject: religion; Christian theology; ethics; philosophy
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1447936
Identifier: uon:43266
Identifier: ISBN:9781978701830
Language: eng

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