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HTS Theological Studies

On-line version ISSN 2072-8050
Print version ISSN 0259-9422

Abstract

WINSLOW, Lisanne D.. A biotheology of God's divine action in the present global ecological precipice. Herv. teol. stud. [online]. 2022, vol.78, n.2, pp.1-7. ISSN 2072-8050.  http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/hts.v78i2.7357.

Theological discourse surrounding the environmental crisis has rightly brought to the forefront human agency as a primary causal determinant. However, this article explores a theistic divine action position toward an account of the present global precipice that the earth and all its creatures teeter upon. The first section offers a preferred view of divine action theory, Divine Compositionalism, with explanatory power to account for an ever-changing planet. Furthermore, Divine Compositionalism is used to ground the role of God as Creator and sustainer of all things toward a constructive biotheology. The second section accounts for both human culpability and God's divine action, retaining human free will and God's sovereignty within a creation God owns and loves. The final section explores a possible remedy to the environmental precipice through the very elements of human cooperation that ensured the success of our prehistoric ancestors. A cooperative biotheology entails humanity re-claiming its inter-relation with all creatures in a world family while exercising the free will to partner with one another on a spiritual level in accomplishing God's good and wonderful eternal ideas for the next step in human spiritual development toward earth's physical evolution. CONTRIBUTION: Drawing upon Divine Compositionalism as a new view of divine action, this article explores God's action in the natural world as it is now and offers a biotheology that entails divine-human partnership toward an alternative future outcome

Keywords : ecotheology; science and theology; divine action; divine compositionalism; environment and spirituality; climate crisis; theology of nature.

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