Sentences with phrase «christian ecological consciousness»

This essay builds upon those papers by showing the relevance of a dialogue with other religions — in this instance a dialogue with Zen Buddhism — to a deepening of Christian ecological consciousness.

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We have also become aware that the anthropocentrism that characterizes much of the Judeo - Christian tradition has often fed a sensibility insensitive to our proper place in the universe.2 The ecological crisis, epitomized in the possibility of a nuclear holocaust, has brought home to many the need for a new mode of consciousness on the part of human beings, for what Rosemary Ruether calls a «conversion» to the earth, a cosmocentric sensibility (Ruether, 89).3

1For an excellent survey of the ambiguous record of Christian thinking vis - a-vis the need for creation consciousness, see Paul Santmire, The Travail of Nature: The Ambiguous Ecological Promise of Christian Theology (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1985).

The Christian faith in the transfiguration of the world in Christ may thus be marshaled in support of a global and ecological consciousness.