(Um)welt-Ethos. Creation, ecology and environment in ecumenical perspective

• Authors: Pablo Blanco-Sarto

Title variants

PL

(Um)welt-ethos. Creation, ecology and environment in ecumenical perspective

Abstracts

PL

Chrześcijaństwo obciąża się nieraz winą za powstałe na przestrzeni wieków zaniedbania w dziedzinie ekologii. Słowa „ekonomia”, „ekologia” i „ekumenizm” pochodzą od tego samego słowa (oikos – dom) i pozostają bardzo bliskie w swym semantycznym rozwoju. Ale Welt-ethos musi być poprzedzony przez Welt-logos i Um-welt-logos, co oznacza, że natura winna określać naszą relację z planetą. Zasada ta kontrastuje nieco z historią chrześcijaństwa, którego stanowisko w tym zakresie bywało niejednoznaczne. Historyczne spojrzenie może pomóc lepiej zrozumieć te abstrakcyjne idee jako obecne w aktualnym czasie. Ekumeniczna i ekologiczna duchowość jest praktykowana nie tylko przez mnichów i zakonników, ale przez wszystkich wierzących w Chrystusa, a teologia stworzenia stała się ekumenicznym punktem spotkania wszystkich chrześcijan. Niniejsze studium, opierając się na biblijnej, historycznej, ekumenicznej i porównawczej metodologii, ma na celu ukazanie sposobu traktowania tej kwestii w chrześcijaństwie w przeszłości i jak należy odnosić się do niej w przyszłości.

EN

Christianity is sometimes considered as guilty of the ecological miscare throughout history. The words ‘economy’, ‘ecology’ and ‘ecumenism’ come from the same word (oikos – house) and remain very close in their respective developments. But Welt-ethos must be preceded by a Welt-logos and by an Um-welt-logos, that means that Nature has her own voice in our relationship with the Planet. This is a counter-intuitive principle in the history of Christianity, whose position has been sometimes ambiguous. An historical approach can help us to understand better these abstract ideas as incarnated in the present moment. This ecumenical and ecological spirituality is lived not only by monks and friars, but also by all believers in Christ, and the theology of creation is an ecumenical meeting-point between all Christians. In this study we will follow here a biblical, historical, ecumenical and comparative methodology, for understanding how was lived this issue in the Christianity, and how must be lived in the future.

Keywords

EN

ecology; creation; ecumenism; postmodernism; ecological spirituality

PL

ekologia; stworzenie; środowisko; postmodernizm; duchowość ekologiczna

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Opolski. Redakcja Wydawnictw Wydziału Teologicznego
• Journal: Studia Oecumenica
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 22
• Pages: 59-73

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Pablo Blanco-Sarto

• University of Navarra, Faculty of Theology

• https://orcid.org/0000000194971649

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Identifiers

DOI

10.25167/so.4985

Biblioteka Nauki

16729544