30/06/2026 14:30
- 17:30
HALL: Pola - A208
Contact:
Parzinger S.
Chair:
O'Regan E.
The increasingly urgent concern for our Common Home in the face of the threats and dramatic effects of climate change, the destruction of biodiversity, reckless exploitation and the struggle for increasingly scarce resources such as water, soil, air, etc. is driving current philosophical and theological debates. Christian faith must re-examine its relationship to creation in light of the crises and conditions of the Anthropocene. The social, cultural and political challenges posed by the experience of an increasing threat to creation are the starting point for fundamental theological and ethical reflections on the relationship between God, humanity and the world.
Any theological approach to creation is therefore always related to practice and has to do with transformation. In the perspective of an ecological theology, creation is the transforming creative impulse of God inherent in creation, which works in human actions and, in view of the responsibility incumbent on human beings as creatures and images of God, expects them to use their creativity to seek and pursue new paths that make a shared and good life on this one planet possible, bearing in mind the limits of growth and the finiteness of the Earth.
However, the development of a profound ecological and hermeneutical transformation in the service of life in abundance for all people and creatures will only succeed through global networking as well as interconfessional, intercultural, and interreligious engagement of theological reflection and faith practice. It concerns not only a liberating practice of sustainability, but also an eco-sensitive and decolonial reorientation of theology itself.
In this sense, the panel - hosted by the Young Curatorium of the European Society for Catholic Theology (ESCT) - seeks to discuss theological and interdisciplinary perspectives from Europe and beyond, that take on this task and seek new paths of Christian faith and theology in the spirit of an integral ecology.
