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This first volume in the proposed series will address some preliminary issues that are typical of a 'prolegomena' in any systematic theology. It will focus on the following question: 'How does the story of who the Triune God is and what this God does relate to the story of life on Earth?' Or: 'Is the Christian story part of the earth's story or is the earth's story part of God's story, from creation to consummation?' This raises many issues on the relatedness of religion and theology, the place of theology in multi-disciplinary collaboration, the notion of revelation, the possibility of knowledge of God, the interplay between convictions and narrative accounts, hermeneutics, the difference between natural theology and a theology of nature, and the role of science vis-a-vis indigenous worldviews.

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The proposed multi-volume series is remarkably important and timely. It comes just at the point when scientists themselves say that the planetary emergency they document must be addressed as a deeply moral and spiritual matter. Science as science cannot do that. The need for, and depth of, moral and spiritual address is now rather widely acknowledged in other quarters as well. Indeed, in four decades of teaching Christian social ethics I have never seen consensus emerge so quickly and so broadly that we must now disinter all the big human questions of origin, destiny, identity and way of life so as to take up anew the meaning-making, story-making work essential for our earthly salvation and the future of the community of life. We need a different template of truth than the one consumer capitalism has stamped on Earthly reality everywhere. And while Bill McKibben can say, 'This is a moment for which the church was born', it is also a moment for which the church is not well-prepared. The church must of needs think through again the essentials of its own faith and traditions if it is to play its part in helping craft viable narratives and practices for the Anthropocene. In a word, the proposed series promises to help provide what is clearly mandated by the extraordinary times in which we live and by the church's own vocation. I enthusiastically endorse it. --Prof. Larry Rasmussen, Union Theological Seminary, New York City, NY, United States of America This edited book offers a rigorous interrogation of how Christian theology, as Christian theology in its diverse trajectories, might (re)(ad)dress our engagement with the ecological. The essays each make a distinctive contribution to the envisaged project; indeed, they are all quite different. This is in my view a positive feature of the book. Readers will find little repetition of theory, theology, or ecology across these essays, encouraging readers to read widely within the book, yet there are sufficient resonances to ensure a coherent volume. --Prof. Gerald West, School of Religion, Philosophy, and Classics, Faculty of Humanities, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa This book (and the series) promises to become a very important and timely project - highly ambitious (but feasible) in its aims and scope, wide-ranging in its scholarship, and above all very much 'geared to the times'. Ernst Conradie takes up the complex conundrums raised by the Anthropocene with full seriousness, approaching them from a theological perspective which enables him to explore the most profound and disturbing questions. Conradie has also shown that he is able to gather a very diverse group ('diverse' on different counts) of scholars around him, inspiring them to cooperate with him and serving them with his wide knowledge and insights in the questions at hand. --Gijsbert van den Brink, Faculty of Religion and Theology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands The proposed multi-volume series is remarkably important and timely. It comes just at the point when scientists themselves say that the planetary emergency they document must be addressed as a deeply moral and spiritual matter. Science as science cannot do that. The need for, and depth of, moral and spiritual address is now rather widely acknowledged in other quarters as well. Indeed, in four decades of teaching Christian social ethics I have never seen consensus emerge so quickly and so broadly that we must now disinter all the big human questions of origin, destiny, identity and way of life so as to take up anew the meaning-making, story-making work essential for our earthly salvation and the future of the community of life. We need a different template of truth than the one consumer capitalism has stamped on Earthly reality everywhere. And while Bill McKibben can say, 'This is a moment for which the church was born', it is also a moment for which the church is not well-prepared. The church must of needs think through again the essentials of its own faith and traditions if it is to play its part in helping craft viable narratives and practices for the Anthropocene. In a word, the proposed series promises to help provide what is clearly mandated by the extraordinary times in which we live and by the church's own vocation. I enthusiastically endorse it. --Prof. Larry Rasmussen, Union Theological Seminary, New York City, NY, United States of America This edited book offers a rigorous interrogation of how Christian theology, as Christian theology in its diverse trajectories, might (re)(ad)dress our engagement with the ecological. The essays each make a distinctive contribution to the envisaged project; indeed, they are all quite different. This is in my view a positive feature of the book. Readers will find little repetition of theory, theology, or ecology across these essays, encouraging readers to read widely within the book, yet there are sufficient resonances to ensure a coherent volume. --Prof. Gerald West, School of Religion, Philosophy, and Classics, Faculty of Humanities, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa This book (and the series) promises to become a very important and timely project - highly ambitious (but feasible) in its aims and scope, wide-ranging in its scholarship, and above all very much 'geared to the times'. Ernst Conradie takes up the complex conundrums raised by the Anthropocene with full seriousness, approaching them from a theological perspective which enables him to explore the most profound and disturbing questions. Conradie has also shown that he is able to gather a very diverse group ('diverse' on different counts) of scholars around him, inspiring them to cooperate with him and serving them with his wide knowledge and insights in the questions at hand. --Gijsbert van den Brink, Faculty of Religion and Theology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

"""The proposed multi-volume series is remarkably important and timely. It comes just at the point when scientists themselves say that the planetary emergency they document must be addressed as a deeply moral and spiritual matter. Science as science cannot do that. The need for, and depth of, moral and spiritual address is now rather widely acknowledged in other quarters as well. Indeed, in four decades of teaching Christian social ethics I have never seen consensus emerge so quickly and so broadly that we must now disinter all the big human questions of origin, destiny, identity and way of life so as to take up anew the meaning-making, story-making work essential for our earthly salvation and the future of the community of life. We need a different template of truth than the one consumer capitalism has stamped on Earthly reality everywhere. And while Bill McKibben can say, 'This is a moment for which the church was born', it is also a moment for which the church is not well-prepared. The church must of needs think through again the essentials of its own faith and traditions if it is to play its part in helping craft viable narratives and practices for the Anthropocene. In a word, the proposed series promises to help provide what is clearly mandated by the extraordinary times in which we live and by the church's own vocation. I enthusiastically endorse it."" --Prof. Larry Rasmussen, Union Theological Seminary, New York City, NY, United States of America ""This edited book offers a rigorous interrogation of how Christian theology, as Christian theology in its diverse trajectories, might (re)(ad)dress our engagement with the ecological. The essays each make a distinctive contribution to the envisaged project; indeed, they are all quite different. This is in my view a positive feature of the book. Readers will find little repetition of theory, theology, or ecology across these essays, encouraging readers to read widely within the book, yet there are sufficient resonances to ensure a coherent volume."" --Prof. Gerald West, School of Religion, Philosophy, and Classics, Faculty of Humanities, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa ""This book (and the series) promises to become a very important and timely project - highly ambitious (but feasible) in its aims and scope, wide-ranging in its scholarship, and above all very much 'geared to the times'. Ernst Conradie takes up the complex conundrums raised by the Anthropocene with full seriousness, approaching them from a theological perspective which enables him to explore the most profound and disturbing questions. Conradie has also shown that he is able to gather a very diverse group ('diverse' on different counts) of scholars around him, inspiring them to cooperate with him and serving them with his wide knowledge and insights in the questions at hand."" --Gijsbert van den Brink, Faculty of Religion and Theology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands"

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"Ernst M. Conradie is a senior professor in the Department of Religion and Theology at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa. He works in the intersection between Christian ecotheology, systematic theology and ecumenical theology and comes from the Reformed tradition. He is the author of The Earth in God's Economy: Creation, Salvation and Consummation in Ecological Perspective (2015), Redeeming Sin? Social Diagnostics amid Ecological Destruction (2017), and Secular Discourse on Sin in the Anthropocene: What's Wrong with the World? (2020). He was the international convener of the Christian Faith and the Earth project (2007-2014), the leading editor (with Sigurd Bergmann, Celia Deane-Drummond, and Denis Edwards) of Christian Faith and the Earth: Current Paths and Emerging Horizons in Ecotheology (2014), and coeditor with Hilda Koster of The T&T Clark Handbook on Christian Theology and Climate Change (2019). He is responsible for registering the project """"An Earthed Faith: Telling the Story amid the 'Anthropocene'"""" at UWC. Pan-Chiu Lai is a professor in the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests include interreligious dialogue, Christianity and Chinese culture, modern Christian thought, and environmental ethics. He is a coauthor with Lin Hongxing of Confucian-Christian Dialogue and Ecological Concern (2006, in Chinese), a coeditor with Jason Lam of Sino-Christian Theology: A Theological Qua Cultural Movement in Contemporary China (2010), and an author of Towards a Trinitarian Theology of Religions: A Study of Paul Tillich's Thought (1994), Mahayana Christian Theology (2011, in Chinese), and Sino-Christian Theology in the Public Square (2014, in Chinese). He is registered as a co-researcher at UWC for the project """"An Earthed Faith: Telling the Story amid the 'Anthropocene'."""" Pan-Chiu Lai is a professor in the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests include interreligious dialogue, Christianity and Chinese culture, modern Christian thought, and environmental ethics. He is a coauthor with Lin Hongxing of Confucian-Christian Dialogue and Ecological Concern (2006, in Chinese), a coeditor with Jason Lam of Sino-Christian Theology: A Theological Qua Cultural Movement in Contemporary China (2010), and an author of Towards a Trinitarian Theology of Religions: A Study of Paul Tillich's Thought (1994), Mahayana Christian Theology (2011, in Chinese), and Sino-Christian Theology in the Public Square (2014, in Chinese). He is registered as a co-researcher at UWC for the project ""An Earthed Faith: Telling the Story amid the 'Anthropocene'."""

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