Utopian/Dystopian Dialectics in Christian Responses to the Ecological Crisis: Between Ethics and Ontology

IF 0.4 4区 社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Tamara Prosic
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abstract:Christianity is a religion with deep utopian undercurrents that find their articulation in narratives about a utopian past, a dystopian present and a utopian future. The natural world is also part of this utopian trend, most prominently in the form of the lost Garden of Eden. While both Western and Eastern Orthodox Christianity recognize nature as part of this past utopia, their views regarding its role in the dystopian present, the future utopian condition as well as the path toward it, significantly differ, leading to quite different responses to the current ecological crisis. For Western Christianity, ecological questions are a matter of ethics, while for the Eastern Orthodox they are an ontological issue. Utilizing Bloch's ideas about "educated hope" and the distinction between abstract and concrete utopias, the article discusses these different positions and their possibility to change believers' attitudes toward nature and align their behavior with that of environmentalism and ecology.
基督教应对生态危机的乌托邦/反乌托邦辩证法:在伦理学与本体论之间
基督教是一种具有深刻乌托邦潜流的宗教,这种潜流在关于乌托邦的过去、反乌托邦的现在和乌托邦的未来的叙述中得到了表达。自然世界也是这种乌托邦趋势的一部分,最突出的形式是失落的伊甸园。虽然西方和东正教都承认自然是过去乌托邦的一部分,但他们对自然在反乌托邦的现在、未来乌托邦的条件以及通往乌托邦的道路的看法却大相径庭,这导致了对当前生态危机的截然不同的回应。对于西方基督教来说,生态问题是一个伦理问题,而对于东正教来说,这是一个本体论问题。本文利用布洛赫关于“受教育的希望”的观点,以及抽象乌托邦和具体乌托邦的区别,讨论了这些不同的立场,以及它们改变信徒对自然的态度,并使他们的行为与环保主义和生态学保持一致的可能性。
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