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Redeeming Sin?: Religious Ethics and Environmental Challenges

Autor Ernst M. Conradie
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 19 oct 2017

Can Christian discourse on sin be retrieved in the public sphere where it is typically contested and often ridiculed? In this contribution to Christian ecotheology, emerging from within the South African context, Ernst Conradie argues that such a retrieval is indeed possible if sin-talk is regarded, at least from the outside, as a form of social diagnostics. It can contribute to multidisciplinary collaboration to address the common need for an in-depth diagnosis of what has gone wrong in the world around us. This is epitomized by ecological destruction but also by economic inequalities and violent conflict. However, such a retrieval is only possible if some major obstacles are confronted. These include the plausibility of the notions of the fall and original sin in the light of evolutionary history, animal ethology, and the cognitive sciences. It is especially the Augustinian tradition and its dual assumptions that it was possible not to sin, but that, after the fall, it is no longer possible not to sin, that have been deeply contested. Conradie compares the Augustinian narrative of what went wrong in the world with other Christian and secular narratives. He defends an Augustinian position, especially given its insistence that social evil, rather than so-called natural evil, is the primary predicament that has to be addressed. Given the contemporary "wicked problems" that we have to address together, it remains crucial to insist that our problem is not vulnerability but rape, not death but premature dying, not a changing climate but anthropogenic climate change. If the root cause of such social evil is indeed sin, then a Christian confession of sin may offer good news for the whole earth. Indeed, there is a sunny side to sin.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781498542456
ISBN-10: 149854245X
Pagini: 290
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: Rowman & Littlefield
Seria Religious Ethics and Environmental Challenges


Notă biografică

Ernst M. Conradie is a senior professor in the Department of Religion and Theology at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa. He works in the intersection between Christian ecotheology, systematic theology and ecumenical theology and comes from the Reformed tradition. He is the author of The Earth in God's Economy: Creation, Salvation and Consummation in Ecological Perspective (2015), Redeeming Sin? Social Diagnostics amid Ecological Destruction (2017), and Secular Discourse on Sin in the Anthropocene: What's Wrong with the World? (2020). He was the international convener of the Christian Faith and the Earth project (2007-2014), the leading editor (with Sigurd Bergmann, Celia Deane-Drummond, and Denis Edwards) of Christian Faith and the Earth: Current Paths and Emerging Horizons in Ecotheology (2014), and coeditor with Hilda Koster of The T&T Clark Handbook on Christian Theology and Climate Change (2019). He is responsible for registering the project ""An Earthed Faith: Telling the Story amid the 'Anthropocene'"" at UWC. Pan-Chiu Lai is a professor in the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests include interreligious dialogue, Christianity and Chinese culture, modern Christian thought, and environmental ethics. He is a coauthor with Lin Hongxing of Confucian-Christian Dialogue and Ecological Concern (2006, in Chinese), a coeditor with Jason Lam of Sino-Christian Theology: A Theological Qua Cultural Movement in Contemporary China (2010), and an author of Towards a Trinitarian Theology of Religions: A Study of Paul Tillich's Thought (1994), Mahayana Christian Theology (2011, in Chinese), and Sino-Christian Theology in the Public Square (2014, in Chinese). He is registered as a co-researcher at UWC for the project ""An Earthed Faith: Telling the Story amid the 'Anthropocene'.""

Cuprins

Introduction: Sin and Social Diagnostics 1. Penultimate Perspectives on the Roots of Environmental Destruction in Africa 2. Where Have Things Gone Awry in Evolutionary History? 3. How is the Story of What Went Wrong in the World to be Told? 4. Obstacles Thwarting a Retrieval of a Christian Notion of Sin 5. Posse Non Peccare? Conclusion: Engaging in Social Diagnostics

Descriere

In this contribution to ecotheology, Ernst Conradie addresses the question whether Christian sin-talk can be retrieved in the public sphere. He argues that sin may be regarded as a form of social diagnostics and defends the plausibility of sin-talk in conversation with evolutionary biology, animal ethology, and the cognitive sciences.