Ultimate Ecological Concern: Transporting Tillich to the Arctic

Sigríður Guðmarsdóttir; Rachel Sophia Baard

Ultimate Ecological Concern: Transporting Tillich to the Arctic

Sigríður Guðmarsdóttir, Rachel Sophia Baard (Editor)

Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies

University of Iceland

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

Abstract

The book chapter discusses Tillich´s famous term "ultimate concern" from the context of climate change in the Arctic. Many ecotheologians have criticized the concept for being too metaphsical and general to meet the challenges of the ecological crisis, race or gender. The intention is to "invite" Tillich north of the Polar Circle, that is reading the Tillichian corpus through the political context of diakonia and indigeneity in the Arctic region to find out if ultimate concern has any good climate to bring to the Artcic.

Translated title of the contribution	Vistfræðilegt alvægi: Færsla Tillich til norðurslóða
Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Political Theology of Paul Tillich
Place of Publication	Lanham, Maryland
Publisher	Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Chapter	8
Pages	175-193
Number of pages	18
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-7936-0890-1
ISBN (Print)	978-1-7936-0889-5
Publication status	Published - 1 Feb 2024

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MaFTíL: Mannréttindi, fjölmenning og trú á tímum loftslagsbreytinga
Guðmarsdóttir, S. (PI), Bóasdóttir, S. A. (PI), Þorsteinsson, R. M. (CoI), Guðmundsdóttir, A. (CoI), Hreinsson, H. (PI) & Sigurvinsson, J. Á. (CoI)
17/10/22 → …
University of Iceland
Project: Research

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MaFTíL: Mannréttindi, fjölmenning og trú á tímum loftslagsbreytinga

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