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Eschatological Visions and Climate Change Decisions David A. Larrabee, Ph.D Eschatology Creation Present End Times Fall End of Fossil fuel usage Economic Technology Creation Fall Present End of Fossil fuel usage 1. The Dogma of

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Eschatological Visions and Climate Change Decisions

David A. Larrabee, Ph.D

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Creation Fall Present End of Fossil fuel usage End Times

Eschatology

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Creation

Fall Present End of Fossil fuel usage

Economic Technology

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“1. The Dogma of Aladdin’s Lamp: If we can dream of it, we can invent it;

2. The Dogma of the Technological Imperative:

When we invent it, we are required to use it.” –

– (Hardin 1968, 141)

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Creation Fall Present End of Fossil fuel usage

Economic Technology Political Ecological Discipleship

Multiple visions

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God Humans Animals Plants Non living Matter

Chain of Being / Hierarchy / Dominion

Angels

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God Humans Rest of Creation Stewardship Model / Hierarchy

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God Humans Rest of Creation

Reconciliation Model

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God

Indigenous People People in Developed world Plants Rocks Animals Soil Sustainer SUN People in Developing world Water Air

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Eschatology and Ethics

An ethics of fear sees the crises; an ethics of hope perceives the chances in the crises. In the exuberance of hope, the temptation is utopianism; in fear, the temptation is alarmism.

-Moltmann

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Questions?

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References

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David Warners, Michael Ryskamp, Randall Van Dragt. 2014. "Reconsiliation Ecology: A New

Paradigm for Advancing Creation Care." Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith 66 (4):221-235.

Hardin, Garrett. 1968. Exploring New Ethics for Survival: The Voyage of the Spaceship Beagle.

New York: The Viking Press.

Leiss, William. 1994. The Domination of Nature. Montreal: McGill-Quees's University Press.
Moltmann, Jurgen. 2012. Ethics of Hope. Kindle ed. Minneapolis, Mn: Fortress Press.
Nelson, Robert H. 2001. Economics as Religion: From Samuelson to Chicago and Beyond.

University Park, Pa: Pennsylvania State University Press.

Nelson, Robert H. 2010. The New Holy Wars: Economic Religion Vs. Environmental Religion.

University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press.

PANNENBERG, WOLFHART. 2008. "MODERNITY, HISTORY, AND ESCHATOLOGY." In The Oxford

Handbook of Eschatology edited by JERRY L. WALLS, 493-499. Oxford University Press.