Global Ethics, Christian Theology, and the Challenge of Sustainability

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ID12590214
AuthorsWillis Jenkins (0000-0003-0471-5524, 1Margaret A. Farley Assistant Professor of Social Ethics Yale Divinity School, New Haven, CT 06511, corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume12
Issue2-3
Pages197-217
Publication date2008-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueWorldviews Global Religions Culture and Ecology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1363-5247 • E-ISSN: 1568-5357
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/156853508x359985
OpenAlexW2006974874
LanguageEN
Citations received5

This paper considers how theology confronts sustainability as a global problem, and what that confrontation can contribute to the challenge of global ethics. After reviewing major models of religious engagement with global ethics, I argue for an analogical conception in which Christian social practices generate moral patterns with the capacity to meet the integrative challenge of global ethics. Theological reflection on those practices then helps sustain the discourse of sustainability as an effective working concept

Christian ethics · Engineering ethics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Global citizenship · Political science · Reflection (computer programming · Social science · Sociology · Sustainability · Christian Theology and Mission · Computer Science · Engineering · Law · Philosophy · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics · Religion, Society, and Development · Ecology

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