Convergent Knowing
Subtitle: Christianity and Science in Conversation with a Suffering Creation
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: Nov 16, 2018
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780773554443
Description: "Global environmental destruction, growing inequality, and the persistent poverty afflicting the majority of humans on the planet challenge Christian theorists, theologians, and ethicists in their pursuit of an ethical vision that is both environmentally sustainable and just for all of creation. Too often their visions--which start with traditional understandings of the Christian faith, prevalent approaches to science, or current ethical models--are inadequate. In Convergent Knowing Simon Appolloni proposes a new framework for ethical deliberation where the espistemoligical lines between religion and science are somewhat blurred. This framework opens up avenues to explore new paradigms for Christianity, science, and liberation while addressing interrelated questions not always manifest within the religion, science, and ethics debates: what kind of ethics, what kind of science, and what kind of Christianity do we need today and tomorrow when the liberation of countless subjects of creation is at stake? Exploring and analyzing the work of Rosemary Radford Ruether, Leonardo Boff, Diarmuid O'Murchu, and Thomas Berry, four Christian ethical thinkers who have borrowed from the natural sciences to unite a liberationist agenda with an environmental ethic, Convergent Knowing assists Christian thinkers struggling to integrate science, environment, liberation, and their faith."--
Notes: Source title: Convergent Knowing: Christianity and Science in Conversation with a Suffering Creation (Advancing Studies in Religion Series)