What's the Plan? Deciphering the Shifts and Ambiguities in Recent Papal Teachings on Creation's Eschatological Destiny and Its Temporal Care
Ethical deliberations about care for creation require more theological clarity about God's eschatological plan for creation than presently found in church teaching. Nonetheless, we can identify in the writings of recent popes a trajectory toward what I describe as a "covenantal communion&q...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2021
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Horizons
Year: 2021, Volume: 48, Issue: 2, Pages: 267-301 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KCB Papacy KDB Roman Catholic Church NBQ Eschatology NCG Environmental ethics; Creation ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
Animals
B Laudato Si’ B Creation B nonhuman creation B Environmental Ethics B Stewardship B Ecology B Ecotheology B Eschatology |
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| Summary: | Ethical deliberations about care for creation require more theological clarity about God's eschatological plan for creation than presently found in church teaching. Nonetheless, we can identify in the writings of recent popes a trajectory toward what I describe as a "covenantal communion" approach. This approach holds that God's eschatological plan is to draw all creatures together in Christ and attributes to creation its own form of agential density through which it becomes, with humanity, a genuine participant in the divine economy. I set this view in contrast to two other approaches: creation as "microcosmic referent" and "humanized abode." Though versions of these latter two appear in Vatican II documents and in the writings of John Paul II and Benedict XVI, their claims have been moderated in Francis’ move toward a covenantal communion approach. Further developing this approach will help clarify the goods and values at stake in our environmental choices. |
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| ISSN: | 2050-8557 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Horizons
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/hor.2021.59 |