Ngolele, Christophère (2016) African Personhood and Christian Ethics Response to the Environmental Crisis Toward a Paradigm of Recognition and Sacred Care. Licentiate thesis, Santa Clara University Berkeley, California.
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Abstract
The problem I discuss in this thesis is the serious threat to the earth’s survival that our current environmental crisis poses. This crisis threatens the very possibility of the continuity of life in its current form. Given the urgent character of this issue, the Roman Catholic Church should increase her action in order to contribute significantly to the effort of solving this major crisis of our time. Various sources, including the United Nations, confirm the exigency of this crisis and the disproportionate burden borne by the Global South. In this respect, Pope Francis has taken a major step in thoroughly addressing this concern in an encyclical wholly devoted to environmental questions, for the very first time in the history of encyclicals in the Church. In this encyclical, the Laudato Si’, Pope calls for a multifaceted dialogue that includes different sciences, cultures, and religious traditions. Here, African personhood stands as an appropriate interlocutor, since African Personhood helps to recover relationality as an important dimension of human identity. The dialogue between Laudato Si’ of Pope Francis and African personhood is the major contribution of this work, as it leads to the proposition of an environmental ethics that will no longer be based on the paradigm of dominion or even stewardship. As the outcome of this thesis, I propose an environmental ethics that is based on recognition and sacred care, since human beings are called to rediscover the right relationships that were intended by God is whose image and likeness they are created.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Licentiate) |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BJ Ethics B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BR Christianity B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BT Doctrinal Theology G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences H Social Sciences > HM Sociology |
| Divisions: | Africana Afro-Christiana Jesuitica |
| Depositing User: | Tim Khabala |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Aug 2017 14:42 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Aug 2017 14:42 |
| URI: | http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/2135 |
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