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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 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)

Economic Technology Multiple visions Creation Discipleship Fall Present Political Ecological End of Fossil fuel usage

Chain of Being / Hierarchy / Dominion God Angels Humans Animals Plants Non living Matter

Stewardship Model / Hierarchy God Humans Rest of Creation

Reconciliation Model God Rest of Humans Creation

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

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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References • Conradie, Ernst M. 2001. Ecological Theology: A guide for further research , Study Guides in Religion and Theology : University of the Western Cape. • 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.