dc.contributor.author | Southgate, C | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-03-20T14:05:06Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2024-03-19 | |
dc.date.updated | 2024-03-20T13:34:47Z | |
dc.description.abstract | After acknowledging Wim Drees’s excellent contribution to the science-religion
debate, this essay considers three ‘beyonds’ unhelpful to a response to the climate emergency.
These are ‘beyond as sudden destruction’, stemming from an over-reliance on the apocalyptic
texts of the New Testament; ‘beyond as up’, focussing on the release of the immortal soul from
the material world; and ‘beyond time’, addressing the cosmological predictions of the ultimate
end of the universe through God’s transformation of creation. The essay proposes in contrast
that the same event in the present can be viewed through four parallel lenses, of which
eschatology is one. It draws on proposals from Drees’s Beyond the Big Bang and the
detemporalised eschatology of Kathryn Tanner to propose an eschatology of the present
moment, informed by divine judgment and longing, and the human vocation to respond to that
judgment and longing with parallel longing, and with both action and consolation. | en_GB |
dc.format.extent | 87-102 | |
dc.identifier.citation | In: Science, Religion, the Humanities and Hope: Essays in Honour of Willem B. Drees, edited by A. Runehov, M. Fuller. pp. 87-102 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-52292-5_7 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/135592 | |
dc.identifier | ORCID: 0000-0001-5712-6024 (Southgate, Christopher) | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Springer | en_GB |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Issues in Science and Religion | |
dc.rights.embargoreason | Under embargo until 19 March 2026 in compliance with publisher policy | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2024 The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG | en_GB |
dc.subject | apocalyptic | en_GB |
dc.subject | consolation | en_GB |
dc.subject | contemplation | en_GB |
dc.subject | eschatology | en_GB |
dc.subject | freedom | en_GB |
dc.subject | hope | en_GB |
dc.subject | imago Dei | en_GB |
dc.subject | judgment | en_GB |
dc.subject | Kingdom | en_GB |
dc.subject | longing | en_GB |
dc.subject | process theology | en_GB |
dc.subject | tipping points | en_GB |
dc.title | Creation beyond Nothing and Now: eschatological reflections in the climate emergency | en_GB |
dc.type | Book chapter | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2024-03-20T14:05:06Z | |
dc.contributor.editor | Runehov, A | |
dc.contributor.editor | Fuller, M | |
dc.identifier.isbn | 978-3-031-52292-5 | |
dc.identifier.isbn | 978-3-031-52291-8 | |
exeter.place-of-publication | Dordrecht | |
dc.description | This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Springer via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.relation.ispartof | Science, Religion, the Humanities and Hope | |
dc.rights.uri | http://www.rioxx.net/licenses/all-rights-reserved | en_GB |
rioxxterms.version | AM | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2024-03-19 | |
rioxxterms.type | Book chapter | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2024-03-20T14:01:15Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | AM | |
refterms.dateFirstOnline | 2024-03-19 | |