Taking a Deep Breath for the Story to Begin: An Earthed Faith, Volume 1 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 172528331X ISBN 13: 9781725283312

Publisher: Pickwick Publications, 2022

Synopsis

This first volume in the proposed series will address some preliminary issues that are typical of a 'prolegomena' in any systematic theology. It will focus on the following question: 'How does the story of who the Triune God is and what this God does relate to the story of life on Earth?' Or: 'Is the Christian story part of the earth’s story or is the earth’s story part of God’s story, from creation to consummation?' This raises many issues on the relatedness of religion and theology, the place of theology in multi-disciplinary collaboration, the notion of revelation, the possibility of knowledge of God, the interplay between convictions and narrative accounts, hermeneutics, the difference between natural theology and a theology of nature, and the role of science vis-à-vis indigenous worldviews.

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About the Authors

Ernst M. Conradie is a senior professor in the Department of Religion and Theology at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa. He works in the intersection between Christian ecotheology, systematic theology and ecumenical theology and comes from the Reformed tradition. He is the author of The Earth in God's Economy: Creation, Salvation and Consummation in Ecological Perspective (2015), Redeeming Sin? Social Diagnostics amid Ecological Destruction (2017), and Secular Discourse on Sin in the Anthropocene: What's Wrong with the World? (2020). He was the international convener of the Christian Faith and the Earth project (2007-2014), the leading editor (with Sigurd Bergmann, Celia Deane-Drummond, and Denis Edwards) of Christian Faith and the Earth: Current Paths and Emerging Horizons in Ecotheology (2014), and coeditor with Hilda Koster of The T&T Clark Handbook on Christian Theology and Climate Change (2019). He is responsible for registering the project ""An Earthed Faith: Telling the Story amid the 'Anthropocene'"" at UWC. Pan-Chiu Lai is a professor in the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests include interreligious dialogue, Christianity and Chinese culture, modern Christian thought, and environmental ethics. He is a coauthor with Lin Hongxing of Confucian-Christian Dialogue and Ecological Concern (2006, in Chinese), a coeditor with Jason Lam of Sino-Christian Theology: A Theological Qua Cultural Movement in Contemporary China (2010), and an author of Towards a Trinitarian Theology of Religions: A Study of Paul Tillich's Thought (1994), Mahayana Christian Theology (2011, in Chinese), and Sino-Christian Theology in the Public Square (2014, in Chinese). He is registered as a co-researcher at UWC for the project ""An Earthed Faith: Telling the Story amid the 'Anthropocene'.""

Pan-Chiu Lai is a professor in the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests include interreligious dialogue, Christianity and Chinese culture, modern Christian thought, and environmental ethics. He is a coauthor with Lin Hongxing of Confucian-Christian Dialogue and Ecological Concern (2006, in Chinese), a coeditor with Jason Lam of Sino-Christian Theology: A Theological Qua Cultural Movement in Contemporary China (2010), and an author of Towards a Trinitarian Theology of Religions: A Study of Paul Tillich's Thought (1994), Mahayana Christian Theology (2011, in Chinese), and Sino-Christian Theology in the Public Square (2014, in Chinese). He is registered as a co-researcher at UWC for the project "An Earthed Faith: Telling the Story amid the 'Anthropocene'."

Edition details

• Publisher: Pickwick Publications
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 172528331X
• ISBN 13: 9781725283312
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 282
• Editor: Conradie Ernst M., Pan-Chiu Lai