Making Room for the Story to Continue?: An Earthed Faith: Telling the Story amid the Anthropocene, Volume 4

This volume is the fourth in a series titled An Earthed Faith: Telling the Story amid the ＂Anthropocene.＂ The series aims to offer collaborative, constructive contributions to understanding the content and significance of the Christian faith from the perspective of Christian ecotheology, given the challenges associated with the ＂Anthropocene.＂ The focus of this volume is on God’s providence. The volume addresses the following question: How could the suffering of God’s creatures in the ＂Anthropocene＂ be reconciled with trust in God’s loving care? Addressing this question required theological reflection on the classic themes related to the doctrine of providence, including creatio continua, conservatio, gubernation, and concursus. The ten contributors were selected in order to optimize a diversity of positions in terms of geographical context, confessional traditions, and theological schools while also taking considerations of gender, race, age, and language into account. The volume captures and extends the current state of the debate in this regard while also indicating emerging horizons in Christian ecotheology.

Ernst M. Conradie is a senior professor in the Department of Religion and Theology at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa. He works in the intersection between Christian ecotheology, systematic theology and ecumenical theology and comes from the Reformed tradition. He is the author of The Earth in God’s Economy: Creation, Salvation and Consummation in Ecological Perspective (2015), Redeeming Sin? Social Diagnostics amid Ecological Destruction (2017), and Secular Discourse on Sin in the Anthropocene: What’s Wrong with the World? (2020). He was the international convener of the Christian Faith and the Earth project (2007-2014), the leading editor (with Sigurd Bergmann, Celia Deane-Drummond, and Denis Edwards) of Christian Faith and the Earth: Current Paths and Emerging Horizons in Ecotheology (2014), and coeditor with Hilda Koster of The T&T Clark Handbook on Christian Theology and Climate Change (2019). He is responsible for registering the project ＂An Earthed Faith: Telling the Story amid the ’Anthropocene’＂ at UWC.