Abstract
Habitat, emotion and an eco-theological understanding of humanity: In conversation with Johan Buitendag. The question on what his viewpoint of an eco-theological understanding of life entails is firstly posed in conversation with the South African systematic theologian Johan Buitendag. His standpoint, in which he argues for the constitutive significance of habitat against the background of the philosophical, biological and theological contours of descriptions of what life is, is set forth. He suggests that human life should be described with regard to habitat in its constitutive significance and subsequently in regard to a value system, and concludes that human life as homo religiosus must be understood from an eco-theological viewpoint as ontologically extended (‘ontologies uitgebreid’). His eco-theological viewpoint is secondly taken up in an explication of the sense making of human life by humans, determined and shaped by their biological roots in their habitat. Lastly the affective-cognitive dimension of being human with specific emphasis on affectivity is expounded as representing the embodiment of the logic of survival of personhood in their habitat.
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In which he argues for the constitutive significance of habitat against the background of the philosophical, biological and theological contours of descriptions of what life is, is set forth. He suggests that human life should be described with regard to habitat in its constitutive significance and subsequently in regard to a value system, and concludes that human life as homo religiosus must be understood from an eco-theological viewpoint as ontologically extended (‘ontologies uitgebreid’)
Die situasie in Suid-Afrika sou nogal in sekere opsigte met die in Amerika en Europa vergelyk kon word, en in ander opsigte weer met die in die Asiatiese en Latyns-Amerikaanse lande
Summary
Emosie en ’n eko-teologiese verstaan van menswees: In gesprek met Johan Buitendag. 2.Dit wat die Deense teoloog Niels Gregersen en die Suid-Afrikaanse teoloog Wentzel Van Huyssteen (1998) in hulle inleiding tot die boek oor ses eietydse modelle vir die wetenskap-teologie gesprek van reeds meer as sestien jaar gelede bespreek, is ongelukkig nog steeds nie vandag waar van hierdie gesprek in die Suid-Afrikaanse konteks nie. In hierdie artikel wil ek met waardering in gesprek tree met die Suid-Afrikaanse sistematiese teoloog Johan Buitendag vir wie die wetenskap-teologie gesprek uiters belangrik is en om hierdie rede die fokus van sy teologiese nadenke is. 6.Hierdie is die mees resente wetenskap-teologie gespreksbydrae van Buitendag en verteenwoordig as eko-hermeneuties-teologiese standpunt oor menswees na my oordeel sy besondere bydrae wat hy tot die gesprek wil maak. Http://www.hts.org.za handeling van die mens met spesifieke toespitsing op die affektief-kognitiewe dimensie van menswees
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