This book addresses the questions of what contributions Christian sin-talk can make toward an adequate, interdisciplinary diagnosis of the surface-level symptoms and underlying causes of ecological damage. The author offers a perspective form the global South by employing a conceptual toolkit derived from the theological critique of apartheid.
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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'.""

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1: A Role for Social Diagnostics?

Chapter 2: A Theological Contribution?

Chapter 3: Unsustainable Habits of the Heart in the Anthropocene?

Chapter 4: Structural Violence in the Anthropocene?

Chapter 5: Distortive Ideologies in the Anthropocene?

Chapter 6: Quasi-Soteriologies in the Anthropocene?

Chapter 7: Idolatry in the Anthropocene?

Chapter 8: Heresy in the Anthropocene?

Chapter 9: An Apocalyptic Theological Postscript

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