Global Ethics, Christian Theology, and the Challenge of Sustainability

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" Global Ethics, Christian Theology, and the Challenge of Sustainability "
Willis Jenkins

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1085875
Doc. No	:	LA129504
Call No	:	‭10.1163/156853508X359985‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Willis Jenkins
Title & Author	:	Global Ethics, Christian Theology, and the Challenge of Sustainability [Article]\ Willis Jenkins
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology
Date	:	2008
Volume/ Issue Number	:	12/2-3
Page No	:	197–217
Abstract	:	This paper considers how theology confronts sustainability as a global problem, and what that confrontation can contribute to the challenge of global ethics. After reviewing major models of religious engagement with global ethics, I argue for an analogical conception in which Christian social practices generate moral patterns with the capacity to meet the integrative challenge of global ethics. Theological reflection on those practices then helps sustain the discourse of sustainability as an effective working concept. This paper considers how theology confronts sustainability as a global problem, and what that confrontation can contribute to the challenge of global ethics. After reviewing major models of religious engagement with global ethics, I argue for an analogical conception in which Christian social practices generate moral patterns with the capacity to meet the integrative challenge of global ethics. Theological reflection on those practices then helps sustain the discourse of sustainability as an effective working concept.
Descriptor	:	CHRISTIAN ETHICS
Descriptor	:	GLOBAL ETHICS
Descriptor	:	PUBLIC THEOLOGY
Descriptor	:	SUSTAINABILITY
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/156853508X359985‬