Without Nature?: A New Condition for Theology - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0823230694 ISBN 13: 9780823230693

Verlag: Fordham University Press, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

Does "nature" still exist? Common wisdom now acknowledges the malleability of nature, the complex reality that circumscribes and constitutes the human. Some thinkers have suggested that nature has disappeared entirely and that we have entered a postnatural era; others note that nature is an ineradicable context for life. If nature is becoming increasingly destabilized, what does this mean for contemporary bioethics and environmental ethics, as well as for the religious visions that inform them? Christian theology, in particular, finds itself in an awkward position. Its Western traditions have long relied upon a static "nature" to express the dynamism of "grace," making nature a foundational category within theology itself. This book brings leading natural and social scientists into conversation with prominent Christian theologians and ethicists to wrestle collectively with difficult questions. Is nature undergoing fundamental change? What role does nature play in theological ethics? How might ethical deliberation proceed "without nature" in the future?

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

David Albertson is Assistant Professor in the School of Religion at the University of Southern California.
Cabell King is a Ph.D. candidate in theology at the University of Chicago Divinity School.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0823230694
• ISBN 13: 9780823230693
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 480
• Herausgeber: Albertson David
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