In this essay, theologian Sallie McFague, author of the influential Models of God: Theology for
an Ecological Nuclear Age, engages in what she calls heuristic theology.
Not exact matches
This prayer, while not the only one in an
ecological,
nuclear age, is a necessary and permanent one.
Such is the need, so McFague claims, of our «
ecological,
nuclear age.»
This paper is based in part on material from my book, Models of God: Theology for an
Ecological,
Nuclear Age.
If what is needed in our
ecological,
nuclear age is an imaginative vision of the relationship between God and the world that underscores their interdependence and mutuality, empowering a sensibility of care and responsibility toward all life, how would it help to see the world as the body of God?
In an
ecological,
nuclear age, so McFague reminds us, it is in our interests to align ourselves with the aims of God, for God herself is on the side of life.
Models of God: Theology for a
Nuclear Ecological Age.
In Theology in a
Nuclear Age he writes that theology must redefine God as «the unifying symbol of those powers and dimensions of the
ecological and historical feedback network» sustaining the fragile web of life.
Models of God: Theology for an
Ecological;
Nuclear Age.
Models of God: Theology for an
Ecological and
Nuclear Age.
How should we image God and the world in an
ecological,
nuclear age?
We have no more right to suppose that our
age of threatened
nuclear winter or
ecological destruction is closer to the end than the first - century Christians had to follow false prophets during the Jewish revolt.