The Christian Imagination and the Anthropocene
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Miller, Richard
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2018
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Evidence from Earth system science suggests that we have forced the earth system out of the relatively stable conditions of the Holocene into a new geological epic. Among the implications of this evidence is that human beings have become a geological force whose influence will be detected thousands to millions of years from now. Our social and cultural imagination, however, has become reduced more and more to the present. This paper develops theological foundations through systematic and philosophical theology, in dialogue with the natural sciences, for opening our imaginations to the deep future so that we can grasp our responsibility for the effects of our actions that will extend for thousands to millions of years. As such it will offer theological foundations for an ethic of the deep future.|Keywords: Anthropocene, climate change, environmental ethics, Christian theology, future
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Miller, R. (2018). The Christian Imagination and the Anthropocene. Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society Supplement Series, 16, 179-201.
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Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center, Creighton University
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1941-8450