Protecting Nature, Saving Creation: Ecological Conflicts, Religious Passions, and Political Quandaries

Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Introduction....Pages 1-6
Ariadne and the Minotaur: A Thread Winding through the Labyrinth....Pages 7-16
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Taking in the Real: Human Beings and the Earth....Pages 19-26
Ecological Conflicts and Religious Passions....Pages 27-31
“Nature” or “Creation”?....Pages 33-42
“Dame Nature Cares Nothing for Us”....Pages 43-61
Creation and Salvation....Pages 63-75
Harmonious Cosmos and the World of the Fall: Natural and Counternatural in the Orthodox Christian Tradition....Pages 77-100
Seeing the World, Hearing the Word....Pages 101-111
Roman Catholic Contributions to Address the Current Ecological Crisis....Pages 113-137
The “Cosmism” of Islam as a Possible Response to the Current Ecological Crisis....Pages 139-148
Economies and Ecologies of the Sacred in Zimbabwe....Pages 149-160
Economic Development, Anthropomorphism, and the Principle of Reasonable Sufficiency....Pages 161-180
Economic and Ecological Challenges....Pages 181-193
Modernization as Liberation Theology....Pages 195-220
Front Matter....Pages 221-223
Afterthought: Of Maker’s Knowledge....Pages 225-231
Thoughts after the Dialogue …....Pages 233-235
Mobilizing Religions for the Ecological Crisis: An Urgent but Difficult Task....Pages 237-239
Evolve: Modernization as the Road to Salvation....Pages 241-247
My Manifesto for the Dialogue....Pages 249-252
Front Matter....Pages 221-223
Roman Catholic Commitment to Promoting Sustainability....Pages 253-257
The Balance of Nature. What Can Be Learned from the History of the Earth and Life....Pages 259-268
What Is My Personal Outcome from This Dialogue?....Pages 269-271
Part of Creation Called to Be Gods: Further Thoughts on the Place of Humans....Pages 273-280
Defining the Commonplace as the Common Place: Cosmopolitanism and the Cross....Pages 281-292