Abstract

CONRADIE, Ernst M. Ways of viewing an evolving world amidst ecological destruction. Scriptura [online]. 2018, vol.117, pp.1-13. ISSN 2305-445X.  http://dx.doi.org/10.7833/117-1-1390.

In an earlier contribution on the use of the term 'worldview' in various theological discourses I commented on the confusing connotations attached to the term in neo-Calvinism, the sociology of knowledge, African theology, 'science and theology' and 'religion and ecology'.¹ This contribution builds on that earlier one by raising the question whether the category of ' worldviews' can perhaps help to hold together the categories of evolution and religion - while doing justice also to an ecological awareness.² The conclusion is a negative one, namely that this is unlikely, given the conceptual confusion over what a 'worldview' entails. Nevertheless, it at least indicates the terrain where contestation takes place.

Keywords : Ecology; Evolution; Evolutionary Biology; Abraham Kuyper; Religion; Worldviews.

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