Environmental-Theology
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The uploaded version of the article is my PDF of the publication. One of the new constellations which, in my opinion, will be much debated on in the post-pandemic time will be the theological interpretation of Creation and of the aims of... more
Anabaptist environmental theologies and ethics could and should do more to engage issues of environmental racism and environmental justice. Since most Anabaptist environmentalisms center on efforts to witness to God’s peace within... more
Jurgen Habermas states that religion and philosophy are engaged in a mutual talk that participates in producing modern states norms. From this hypothesis of contemporary society “prepolitical sources” we explore the specificity of French... more
The emergence of environmental ethics in the Western world is typically dated to the nineteenth century. However, modern environmentalism was preceded by over two thousand years by Scriptural teaching. This article demonstrates that the... more
Cet article a pour objectif d’expliciter les liens entre la pensée théologique, sociologique et politique de Jacques Ellul à travers l’étude de sa conception de l’histoire. A partir de son commentaire de l’Ecclésiaste nous montrerons que... more
Having Analyzing the concepts of ‘intrinsic value’ and ‘instrumental value’ in the domain of natural environment, the present essay deals with the major approaches in the philosophy of environment and ethics of environment as well as... more
An influential article in the 1960s led to wide acceptance of the idea that Christianity is directly responsible for the current ecological crisis. In recent years this view has become increasingly criticized, and even secular commentary... more
Mobilizing the Church for ministry of creation care
گفتگو با برنامهی بامدادی رادیو بی بی سی فارسی در باب سند مهمی که کلیسای کاتولیک در باب بحران زیست محیطی صادر کرده است. Yaser Mirdamadi's short interview with BBC Persian radio (15/06/2015) about the encyclical letter issued by Pope... more
This paper is about a new theology of nature and environmental theology based on Ludwig Feuerbach’s major works on religion, the cosmocentric theology of Teilhard de Chardin, and recent deep incarnation theologies, arguing for a newly... more
In today’s scattering world, challenged as it is by climate change, pollution and other forms of environmental degradation, developing an adequate theology of creation is not just an armchair luxury, but a vital task, a mission in which... more