Last Edit: June 29, 2018, 02:03 AM by Jon Stovell
Abstract:
Evangelical Christians sometimes raise concerns about addressing ecological injustice in a world that is passing away. Our eschatological vision has a definite impact on our capacity for engaging with contemporary issues. This is particularly true regarding those issues that are hard to connect to our mainly anthropocentric concerns. Even when evangelicals do engage in addressing social injustices our engagement is often with little attention to building a future that includes the world God created. This paper will use an inaugurated-enacted Kingdom theology as a corrective to overly futurist eschatologies that struggle to engender legitimate ecological concern. This Kingdom theology will also be used as proof against an overly realized eschatology that can become indifferent to an eschatological hope for our future. My proposal is an eschatological vision for deep ecological engagement as a form of participating with the Father’s ongoing redemptive work in the world (cosmos) that God so loves.
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Frank L. Emanuel, Ph.D.
Sessional Professor Saint Paul University
Communications Officer Canadian Theological Society
opinons expressed reflect my own personal views and not those of any of the organizations I represent.
