Research Catalog

Title

When time is short : finding our way in the Anthropocene / Timothy Beal.

Author

Beal, Timothy K. (Timothy Kandler), 1963-

Publication

Boston : Beacon Press, [2022]

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Details

Description

159 pages; 23 cm

Summary

• "What if it's too late to save ourselves from the climate crisis? When Time Is Short is a meditation on what may be a finite human future that asks how we got here in order to help us imagine a different relationship to the natural world. Modern capitalism, as it emerged, drew heavily upon the Christian belief in human exceptionalism and dominion over the planet, and these ideas still undergird our largely secular society. They have justified the pillaging and eradication of Indigenous communities and the plundering of Earth's resources in pursuit of capital and lands. But these aren't the only models available to us - and they aren't even the only models to be found in biblical tradition. Beal rereads key texts to anchor us in other ways of being - in humbler conceptions of humans as earth creatures, bound in ecological interdependence with the world, subjected to its larger reality. Acknowledging that to have any real hope we must first face and grieve the realities of the climate crisis, Beal makes space for us to imagine new possibilities and rediscover ancient ones. What matters most when time becomes short, he reminds us, is always what matters most."
• "It's a book about our denial of death as a species (the possibility if not probability of extinction), how religion has fueled that denial, and how religion might also help break through that denial and find hope"--

Subject

• Theological anthropology > Christianity
• Human beings > Extinction
• Human ecology > Religious aspects > Christianity
• Climatic changes > Religious aspects > Christianity
• Capitalism > Religious aspects > Christianity
• Ecotheology
• Future, The
• Denial (Psychology) > Religious aspects > Christianity
• Hope > Religious aspects > Christianity

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction with playlist -- Soon, all of this will be gone -- Once we were like gods -- We are the gods now -- Gods with anuses -- Palliative hope -- Back to the beginnings -- Humus being -- No hope without grief -- Subsistentialism -- Epilogue: Kids these days.

Call Number

JFD 22-2504

ISBN

• 9780807090008
• 080709000X

LCCN

2022001446

OCLC

1308410018

Author

Beal, Timothy K. (Timothy Kandler), 1963- author.

Title

When time is short : finding our way in the Anthropocene / Timothy Beal.

Publisher

Boston : Beacon Press, [2022]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

JFD 22-2504