Creation and Theodicy in the Context of Climate Change: A New Cosmology for the Anthropocene?
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Simkins, Ronald A.
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2019
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The Bible was composed during the Holocene era, which was characterized by a stable climate enabling humans and human civilization to grow and flourish. The biblical cosmology, as expressed through its creation stories and other texts, is a product of that era. Now that we have entered a new geological era – the Anthropocene, as many scholars claim – which is characterized by anthropogenic climate change, the biblical cosmology raises questions of theodicy: Is the creation of God faulty? Is God ultimately responsible for the dire consequences and suffering that humans will experience as a result of climate change? This paper considers how the changing circumstances of climate change challenge the biblical cosmology, and whether the biblical cosmology remains relevant in the Anthropocene.|Keywords: creation, climate change, Anthropocene, theodicy, cosmology
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Simkins, R. A. (2019). Creation and Theodicy in the Context of Climate Change: A New Cosmology for the Anthropocene?. Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society Supplement Series, 18, 232-249.
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Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center, Creighton University
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1941-8450