Species and Salvation
Theology of History in the Anthropocene
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12740803 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Henning Trüper (0000-0003-0660-7957, Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1245-1261 |
| Publication date | 2021-08-02 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern Intellectual History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1479-2443 • E-ISSN: 1479-2451 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1479244321000330 |
| OpenAlex | W3189896125 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 5 |
In this article I will discuss various thoughts of a few recent representatives of the tradition of the philosophy of history—Heinz Dieter Kittsteiner, Ulrich Beck, and finally Karl Rahner—and bring them into a conversation with Dipesh Chakrabarty's work on the problems of human species history and the Anthropocene. The aim of this undertaking is to gain greater clarity on the question of the work that theology continues to do for historical thought. I argue that Rahner's notions about “inclusivism”—according to which the possibility of salvation is vested in the species history of humanity rather than in the history of Christian revelation—and his related notion of an irresolvable tension between “anonymous” and what one might then call “onomastic” histories signal the continuing significance of a theology of the baptismal sacrament for historical thought. Rereading Rahner's thought sheds light on certain quandaries of the Anthropocene discussion, regarding the way in which species history can be related to other kinds of history writing, and the novel opening for theodicy generated by the breakdown of the culture–nature divide
Anthropocene · Christian theology · Conversation · Embodied cognition · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Eschatology · History of religions · Humanity · Intellectual history · Revelation · Theology · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · History · Philosophy · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |