Redeeming Sin?

Social Diagnostics amid Ecological Destruction

AvErnst M. Conradie

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

Del i serien Religious Ethics and Environmental Challenges

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Beskrivning

Can Christian sin-talk be retrieved within the public sphere? In this contribution to ecotheology, Ernst M. Conradie argues that, amid ecological destruction, discourse on sin can contribute to a multidisciplinary depth diagnosis of what has gone wrong in the world. He confronts some major obstacles related to the plausibility of sin-talk in conversation with evolutionary biology, the cognitive sciences, and animal ethology. He defends an Augustinian insistence that social evil, rather than natural evil, is our primary predicament. If the root cause of social evil is sin, then a Christian confession of sin may yet yield good news for the whole earth.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-10-11
Mått:160 x 236 x 24 mm
Vikt:544 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Religious Ethics and Environmental Challenges
Antal sidor:290
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781498542456

Utforska kategorier

Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion
Kristendom inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

Ernst M. Conradie is senior professor in the Department of Religion and Theology at the University of the Western Cape.

Recensioner i media

On the back cover of the book well-known theologians Sallie McFague, Mark Douglas, Gijsbert van den Brink and Denis Edwards comment on the scholarship represented in Redeeming Sin and the contribution that the book makes to the field. For Van den Brink and Edwards, the scholarship is perceptive and compelling, written with intellectual rigour and radical honesty and for McFague and Douglas its contribution is powerful, wide raging and pervasive with profound insights. I agree with all of these scholars and would suggest, in addition, that RedeemingSin is relevant and contextual to scholarship in Africa.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: Sin and Social Diagnostics1. Penultimate Perspectives on the Roots of Environmental Destruction in Africa2. Where Have Things Gone Awry in Evolutionary History?3. How is the Story of What Went Wrong in the World to be Told?4. Obstacles Thwarting a Retrieval of a Christian Notion of Sin5. Posse Non Peccare?Conclusion: Engaging in Social Diagnostics