Abstract
Faith in the Anthropocene requires a re-imagined account of Christian hope. Research on the emergence of eco-anxiety disorder shows that climate crisis and ecological destruction have psychological and emotional effects on persons and communities, producing fear, despair, and hopelessness. Accounts of hope in recent environmental literature and in traditional Christian formulations rely on faith in political will, technological innovation, or an omnipotent divine sovereign to intervene and save. Such accounts are inadequate for this moment. A re-imagined notion of Christian hope will embrace hopelessness, understood as the relinquishment of false optimism that the climate crisis can be reversed and a commitment to act without expectation of success, but with a commitment to nurturing the wisdom to live more humanly.
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Christian hope will embrace hopelessness, understood as the relinquishment of false optimism that the climate crisis can be reversed and a commitment to act without expectation of success, but with a commitment to nurturing the wisdom to live more humanly
Eco-anxiety is increasingly in the news these days and it is manifesting as a crisis of hope
In this essay I argue that the emergence of eco-anxiety disorders requires re-imagined accounts of hope in light of the climate crisis in which we are living
Summary
Eco-anxiety is increasingly in the news these days and it is manifesting as a crisis of hope. According to Glenn Albrecht, who coined the term “solastalgia”, he was attempting to name “the pain or distress caused by the loss of, or the inability to derive solace connected to the negatively perceived state of one’s home environment”. It exists when there is the “lived experience of physical desolation of home”.4. In this essay I argue that the emergence of eco-anxiety disorders requires re-imagined accounts of hope in light of the climate crisis in which we are living. I will suggest three dimensions of a renewed account of hope
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