عنوان

Global Ethics, Christian Theology, and the Challenge of Sustainability

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انگلیسی

Global Ethics, Christian Theology, and the Challenge of Sustainability

[Article]

Willis Jenkins

Leiden

Brill

This paper considers how theology confronts sustainability as a global problem, and what that confrontation can contribute to the challenge of global ethics. After reviewing major models of religious engagement with global ethics, I argue for an analogical conception in which Christian social practices generate moral patterns with the capacity to meet the integrative challenge of global ethics. Theological reflection on those practices then helps sustain the discourse of sustainability as an effective working concept. This paper considers how theology confronts sustainability as a global problem, and what that confrontation can contribute to the challenge of global ethics. After reviewing major models of religious engagement with global ethics, I argue for an analogical conception in which Christian social practices generate moral patterns with the capacity to meet the integrative challenge of global ethics. Theological reflection on those practices then helps sustain the discourse of sustainability as an effective working concept.

2008

197-217

Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology

12/2-3

1568-5357

CHRISTIAN ETHICS

GLOBAL ETHICS

PUBLIC THEOLOGY

SUSTAINABILITY

Willis Jenkins

10.1163/156853508X359985

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[Article]

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