生态危机与神学思考的转向

西方基督教神学对生态危机的反思,始于回应来自基督教神学外部的批判,这些批判针对的是支撑现代科技发展背后的基督教理念。与此相应,基督教神学一方面立足于圣经和教义为基督教传统辩护,另一方面以JohnCobb为代表的神学家也在谋求,在新的人与自然关系的背景下改变基督教神学的传统、思考神学未来的发展走向以及如何回应当今日益严重的生态问题。     

A Reconsideration of Religious Authority in Christian Theology

As Stanley Cavell has critiqued Christianity for displacing authority from the individual to somewhere beyond critical assessment, so several Christian theologians have also turned to Wittgenstein to justify just such displacement. This article suggests that both offer theologically impoverished and historically inattentive accounts of authority. It aims instead to sketch five moments in the Christian tradition to suggest five ways of naming the intimacy of religious authority with individual critical assessment. Such intimacy is then theologically described through the doctrinal loci of creation and incarnation, which generate a picture of authority surprisingly near to one Cavell might want to celebrate.