‘At Home on the Earth’: Toward a Theology of Human Non-Exceptionalism
The climate crisis requires a revaluation of what it means to be human that radically rejects human exceptionalism. I argue that such an account of human being can be constructed from a combination of Sallie McFague’s theology and Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology. While McFague’s theology estab...
| Published in: | Journal for the study of religion, nature and culture |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Equinox Publ.
[2020]
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Journal for the study of religion, nature and culture
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
McFague, Sallie 1933-2019
/ Merleau-Ponty, Maurice 1908-1961
/ Ecological theology
/ Geology, Stratigraphic
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| RelBib Classification: | FD Contextual theology NCG Environmental ethics; Creation ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
Phenomenology
B human exceptionalism B Maurice Merleau-Ponty B Climate Change B Sallie McFague B Embodiment B Christian ecotheology B Ecofeminism B mesh |
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| Summary: | The climate crisis requires a revaluation of what it means to be human that radically rejects human exceptionalism. I argue that such an account of human being can be constructed from a combination of Sallie McFague’s theology and Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology. While McFague’s theology established the parameters for an embodied, ecotheological concept of human being, I contend that Merleau-Ponty’s late work can push this vision of humanity from being anti-anthropocentric to being truly non-exceptionalistic, by making it possible to understand humans as part of the ‘mesh’ of the world. This allows for a human non-exceptionalism that still has room for the differentiation and relationality necessary to honor human diversity and to facilitate ameliorative action. The result is a foundation for a new ecotheological concept of human being that can speak to what it means to be human in the Anthropocene. |
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| ISSN: | 1749-4915 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the study of religion, nature and culture
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/jsrnc.40899 |