Sentences with phrase «cosmic homelessness»

Our anthropocentrism is intimately related to, perhaps based upon, a pervasive sense of cosmic homelessness, which we must recognize first if we are to understand the role of anthropocentrism.

In several of its dominant strains Christian theology still clings to the same assumptions of cosmic homelessness that we find in scientism and materialism.

The perceived environmental ineptitude of theology and religious education is accentuated now by the many accusations, often well - founded, that «revealed» religions are themselves partly responsible for promoting ideals of cosmic homelessness that have set us adrift from, and made us indifferent to, nature.

Yet a feeling of cosmic homelessness clings to Christian religious teachings, and to academic theology as well.

In the case of cosmic homelessness this reaction has led to a domineering and destructive attitude toward the life - systems of our planet.

(What follows is an adaptation of ideas developed at more length in my article «Religious and Cosmic Homelessness,» in Liberating Life, edited by Charles Birch.

Dualistic deposits in Christian theology are themselves partly responsible for the feeling of cosmic homelessness that underlies our present environmental crisis.

Not exact matches

As we explore these issues our itinerary will be as follows: (1) we shall look first at several ways in which reflection on science has contributed to the feeling of cosmic exile and therefore to our environmental carelessness; (2) then we shall examine how theologies from our own Christian tradition that have hovered closely, even though critically, around modern scientific cosmologies have perpetuated the same feeling of cosmic exile; and (3) finally we shall look briefly at how a cosmological understanding of religion centering on the notion of adventure can both reconcile us to the evolving universe and at the same time allow us to embrace the feeling of religious homelessness present in religious teachings.

Hence we need a hermeneutic of religions that distinguishes religious homelessness from cosmic exile.

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