Global Ethics, Christian Theology, and the Challenge of Sustainability

Author: Jenkins, Willis

Source: Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology, Volume 12, Numbers 2-3, 2008 , pp. 197-217(21)

Publisher: BRILL

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Abstract:

This paper considers how theology confronts sustainability as a global problem, and what that confrontation can contribute to the challenge of global ethics. After reviewing major models of religious engagement with global ethics, I argue for an analogical conception in which Christian social practices generate moral patterns with the capacity to meet the integrative challenge of global ethics. Theological reflection on those practices then helps sustain the discourse of sustainability as an effective working concept.

Keywords: GLOBAL ETHICS; SUSTAINABILITY; CHRISTIAN ETHICS; PUBLIC THEOLOGY

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853508X359985

Affiliations: 1: Margaret A. Farley Assistant Professor of Social Ethics Yale Divinity School, New Haven, CT 06511

Publication date: 2008-11-01