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- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- ISSN
- 2156-4795
Abstract
Michael S. Hogue / Meadville Lombard Theological School I. Opening he ecological crisis is one of the most critical moral concerns of the present. But the concern is not with the environment, or with that which Tsurrounds us; it is not with an objectified nature, in relation to which humans stand as mere passive observers. Rather, ecological concern emerges from recognition that humanity participates in nature, that our behavior in the natural world affects our own present and future as well as the present and future of the biosphere and that we are morally answerable for this behavior, or responsible in, through, and for our participation. Understood in these ways, the ecological crisis can be viewed as an unfolding historical process generated by the structural forms and systemic values of human cultural life. Adequate response to the ecological crisis thus calls upon us to reimagine our moral responsibilities within nature. What does it mean to claim this, and what on earth could be the roles of the arts and of religious life in response? In this brief ree fl ctive article, I will engage this question by thinking through the ways in which the ecological crisis calls upon us
Journal
American Journal of Theology & Philosophy – University of Illinois Press
Published: Jul 14, 2010