Die noodsaaklikheid van habitat in ons definisie van menswees: Op soek na ’n eko-teologiese verstaan van menslike lewe

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies

 
 
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Title Die noodsaaklikheid van habitat in ons definisie van menswees: Op soek na ’n eko-teologiese verstaan van menslike lewe
 
Creator Buitendag, Johan
 
Subject Systematic Theology; Relifion, Ecology habitat; life; eco-theology; biotope
Description The indispensability of habitat in our definition of human personhood: In search of an eco-theological understanding of human life. The endeavour of this article is to arrive at a theological responsible conception of life. Life cannot be described adequately only in terms of body and soul (and/or spirit), or even in terms of human personhood. The point is that it is constitutive for life to take the human being’s environment sociologically as well as ecologically into account. This article does not plead for a nature religion as advocated by the Deep Green Movement and all its variations of naturalism and supernaturalism, but asks for a revaluation of a Christian anthropology which approaches the Bible with a green hermeneutics. Perhaps the expression, ‘bio-cultural’ paradigm requests to be substituted with an eco-sociological niche of the human person. An eco-sociological (eco-theological) understanding of homo religiosus is therefore to assume human life as ontologically ‘distributed’.
 
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Date 2012-11-26
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — abductive
Format text/html application/octet-stream text/xml application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/hts.v68i1.1283
 
Source HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies; Vol 68, No 1 (2012); 8 pages 2072-8050 0259-9422
 
Language eng
 
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https://hts.org.za/index.php/hts/article/view/1283/2635 https://hts.org.za/index.php/hts/article/view/1283/2636 https://hts.org.za/index.php/hts/article/view/1283/2641 https://hts.org.za/index.php/hts/article/view/1283/2634
 
Coverage Global Third Millennium 58; male; African
Rights Copyright (c) 2012 Johan Buitendag https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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