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In this book Bruno Latour calls upon Christians to join the struggle to avert a climate catastrophe. First and foremost, Christians need to overcome their lack of interest in “earthly things” and pay attention to the Earth at a time when it is being neglected. He also urges Christians to renew their understanding of their faith in the context of the new image of the world that has emerged from earth system science – that of a world in which the myriad of beings that inhabit the world are interdependent and living in close proximity on a slender, fragile membrane on the surface of the planet.

This new image of the world cannot fail to have an impact on the sciences, on politics, and on religion, just as, in earlier centuries, the cosmology of Copernicus and Galileo upset the old order. Latour sees the ecological crisis, and the cosmological mutation that it entails, as an opportunity to convey anew, to the largest possible audience, the tradition of Christianity as it has never been appreciated before, by bringing to bear the lessons of eschatology on the great crisis that looms before us all.



Table of Contents
Foreword by Frédéric Louzeau

1. The Great Clamor: Conversation with Antonio Spadaro, SJ
2. Ecological Mutation and Christian Cosmology
3. On a Decisive Overturning of the Schema of the End Times
4. If You Lose the Earth, What Good Will It Do You to Have Saved Your Soul?

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If we lose the Earth, we lose our souls

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      Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Published 9 February 2024
      ISBN-13 9781509560455
      978-1509560455
      ISBN-10 1509560459
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      Sociology and anthropology

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      Book Synopsis

      In this book Bruno Latour calls upon Christians to join the struggle to avert a climate catastrophe. First and foremost, Christians need to overcome their lack of interest in “earthly things” and pay attention to the Earth at a time when it is being neglected. He also urges Christians to renew their understanding of their faith in the context of the new image of the world that has emerged from earth system science – that of a world in which the myriad of beings that inhabit the world are interdependent and living in close proximity on a slender, fragile membrane on the surface of the planet.

      This new image of the world cannot fail to have an impact on the sciences, on politics, and on religion, just as, in earlier centuries, the cosmology of Copernicus and Galileo upset the old order. Latour sees the ecological crisis, and the cosmological mutation that it entails, as an opportunity to convey anew, to the largest possible audience, the tradition of Christianity as it has never been appreciated before, by bringing to bear the lessons of eschatology on the great crisis that looms before us all.



      Table of Contents
      Foreword by Frédéric Louzeau

      1. The Great Clamor: Conversation with Antonio Spadaro, SJ
      2. Ecological Mutation and Christian Cosmology
      3. On a Decisive Overturning of the Schema of the End Times
      4. If You Lose the Earth, What Good Will It Do You to Have Saved Your Soul?

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