Hope: Being Human in the Anthropocene
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چکیده
Given the calamities involved in climate change and impact it is having – will continue to have, on lives driven towards subsistence what can be said about goodness of creation? This essay explores how privileged theologians might rethink notion common good a situation where majority are under-privileged. It argues for need imaginative investment develop empathy, not sympathy; listen ways that attentive tending; learning accompany, such dependence empowering when recognised practised as mutual. Theologically, sharing accompaniment necessary has appreciated inhering existence all things, relationality living expressions creation. Such incarnations uncreated Triune God, operating through ongoing processes
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Systematic Theology
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['1463-1652', '1468-2400']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/ijst.12622