Bishop Jim White Memorial Lecture 2: Dr Nicola Hoggard Creegan

Name: Bishop Jim White Memorial Lecture 2: Dr Nicola Hoggard Creegan
Start: 2024-09-19T19:30:00+12:00
Location: Anglican Church All Saints

Schedule

Thu Sep 19 2024 at 07:30 pm

UTC+12:00

Location

Anglican Church All Saints | Auckland, AU

Can Christianity be an eco-responsive faith? The Climate Crisis and a response to Jim Salinger - Dr Nicola Hoggard Creegan

Christianity is known much more in terms of beliefs than in the practices of its mother religion, Judaism. But what Christians believe is wide and varied and often contradictory, especially in key areas of creation, creaturehood and end times that have relevance to eco concern, eco-justice and climate change. And yet, perhaps more than in any other religion, belief does influence practice. This paper will, first of all, respond to Jim Salinger and the deep resonance that Judaism has in the Christian worldview. It will also attempt to describe and reconstruct some of the tangled links between Christian belief and ecological malpractice. Can Christian theology recapture a holistic eco-centric vision that is true to its Jewish heritage and inspires the serving and preserving of the planet? With Lynn White Jr, I will argue that there are deep traditions from which to draw that encourage and even lead the healing of the planet.