The climate is changing as an unintended consequence of human industrialization and consumerism. Recently some scientists and engineers have suggested climate engineering--technological solutions that would intentionally change the climate to make it more hospitable. This approach focuses on large-scale technologies to alleviate the worst effects of anthropogenic climate change. This book considers the moral, philosophical, and religious questions raised by such proposals, bringing Christian theology and ethics into the conversation about climate engineering for the first time. The...
The climate is changing as an unintended consequence of human industrialization and consumerism. Recently some scientists and engineers have suggested...
Can Christian discourse on sin be retrieved in the public sphere where it is typically contested and often ridiculed? In this contribution to Christian ecotheology, emerging from within the South African context, Ernst Conradie argues that such a retrieval is indeed possible if sin-talk is regarded, at least from the outside, as a form of social diagnostics. It can contribute to multidisciplinary collaboration to address the common need for an in-depth diagnosis of what has gone wrong in the world around us. This is epitomized by ecological destruction but also by economic inequalities and...
Can Christian discourse on sin be retrieved in the public sphere where it is typically contested and often ridiculed? In this contribution to Christia...
