RT Article
T1 Reclaiming place: An eco-theological response to the 'miasma of temporocentrism'
JF Pacifica
VO 30
IS 2
SP 146
OP 157
A1 Guess, Deborah
LA English
PB Sage Publ.
YR 2017
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1663506671
AB In contrast to the way that Christian and Western thought have tended to prioritize time and history over place and geography, an ecological sensibility requires a counter-balancing geographical emphasis. Using a contemporary definition of place as a meeting between the global and the local, two eco-theological claims can be made: that the tradition is more strongly rooted in place than has always been acknowledged; and the idea that, through the event of the Incarnation, place can be seen as reconstituted yet concretized. This means that the previously neglected category of place achieves greater significance in relation both to the life and ministry of Jesus Christ and implicitly to the lives of all Christians at all times and places. This focus on place contributes to a theology which is amenable to the radical challenges of today's ecological context.
K1 Incarnation
K1 Eco-theology
K1 Ecology
K1 Geography
K1 Place
K1 temporocentrism
DO 10.1177/1030570X17737098