Faith after the Anthropocene

• Other Authors: Wickman, Matthew (Editor), Sherman, Jacob (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: Research & information: general; Biology, life sciences; Ecological science, the Biosphere; globalization; climate change; Anthropocene; planetarity; jeremiad; anthropocene; saving grace; rhetoric; doomsday; spiritual crisis; eco-anxiety; despair; hope; virtue; climate crisis; selfhood; personhood; Spirit; Christology; breathing; self-loss; transformed self; Book of Nature; Hugh of Saint Victor; Bruno Latour; Timothy Morton; Slavoj Žižek; ecology and religion; eco-theology; predation; food; ecology; Eucharist; Earth; sacrament; ritual; resurrection; Plumwood; Abram; sacred; Yellowstone; Bhutan; Jordan River; religion; multispecies; ecotheology; novelty; postcolonial ecocriticism; Derek Walcott; theodicy; poetics; wonder; eschatology; Noah; Adam and Eve; grief and mourning; extinction; climate humanism; ecocriticism; faith; vulnerability; environment
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Recent decades have brought to light the staggering ubiquity of human activity upon Earth and the startling fragility of our planet and its life systems. This is so momentous that many scientists and scholars now argue that we have left the relative climactic stability of the Holocene and have enter...