23/05/2024 10:30 - 15:00

HALL: FATESI - TOMASI

Chair: Blackman B., Van Willigenburg T.

Speaker: Blackman B., Forster D., Łukasz Sawicki B., Van Den Belt H., Van Willigenburg T.

The groundbreaking changes in climate-circumstances that humanity currently experiences and will experience in the near future cannot but lead to a paradigm shift in theological reflection about God's presence in creation and our role and responsibility with regard to the protection of the earth's environment.
Examples of shifting paradigms to be explored:
Providence: How may the governance of God by which He, with wisdom and love, cares for all things in the universe, be understood in light of growing natural disasters?
Eco-theology: From stewardship of nature (humans are responsible for the world, and the resources that have been entrusted to us by God) to partnership: what does that involve in practice?
Sacredness and holiness: How is sacredness of nature related to and distinct from the holiness of a divine Creator.
Biodiversity and spirituality:  What does the loss of biodiversity mean for religious experiences related to nature (traditionally: "the theater of God's glory", recently: eco-spirituality celebrating humanity's connection to the natural world).
Climate justice: The current environmental crisis (causing many social and economic injustices) cannot be understood without reference to the commercialization and commodification of creation (including human bodies) by Western colonizers. How does that affect theological reflection now?
Collective and individual responsibility for ecological (non-)deterioration: how are these related?



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