Will it be possible to decolonize the future?
Eschatology in times of climate change
Abstract
What can eschatology offer in the face of climate change? This first attempt to explore eschatology within a decolonizing framework examines the development of eschatology in academic circles from the end of the nineteenth century when the historical critical method revealed the apocalyptic fervor of Jesus and the first Christian communities. On the popular level and in the missionary movement, including in Latin America, the escapist eschatology of dispensationalism has been widespread. There is an urgent need to rethink eschatology within the systems of the biosphere. In dialogue with other worldviews with their own visions of the destiny of the earth and in alliance with critical thinking, a Christian decolonizing eschatology can cultivate the capacity to visualize the end of the current systems of domination that are destroying ecosystems and encourage us to take action in favor of planetary life.
Downloads
The authors who publish in this journal accept the following conditions:
- The authors retain their author rights y grant to the journal the right of first publication, with the work registered with the Creative Commons attribution that allows third parties to use the published material as long as they give appropriate credit to the author and the first publication in this journal.
-
The authors may make other independent contractual agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the version of the article published in this journal (e.g. include it in an institutional repository or publish it in a book) as long as they clearly indicate that the work was first published in this journal.