Preservation and Protest: Theological Foundations for an Eco-Eschatological Ethics (Emerging Scholars) - Softcover

McLaughlin, Ryan Patrick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1451480407 ISBN 13: 9781451480405

Verlag: Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 2014

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Preservation and Protest proposes a novel taxonomy of four paradigms of nonhuman theological ethics by exploring the intersection of tensions between value terms and teleological terms. These tensions arise out of the theological loci of cosmology, anthropology, and eschatology. The individual paradigms of the taxonomy are critically elucidated through the work of Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Berry, Dumitru St Niloae, and Jurgen Moltmann and Andrew Linzey. McLaughlin systematically develops the paradigm of cosmocentric transfiguration, arguing that the entire cosmos-including all instantiations of life therein-shares in the eschatological hope of a harmonious participation in God's triune life, a participation that entails the end of suffering, predation, and death. This paradigm yields an ethics based upon a tension between preservation and protest. With this paradigm, McLaughlin offers an alternative to anthropocentric and conservationist paradigms within the Christian tradition, an alternative that affirms both scientific claims about natural history and the theological hope for eschatological redemption.

Biografía del autor:

Ryan Patrick McLaughlin is an associate fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animals Ethics and adjunct instructor in the department of theology at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He earned a Ph.D. in systematic theology at Duquesne University.

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• Verlag: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1451480407
• ISBN 13: 9781451480405
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 476