Decentering the Human in Practical Theologies of Care: An EARTH Method
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Cody J. Sanders
Abstract
This article addresses the problem of human supremacy in the methods of practical theology. It puts forth a practical theological method for experimentation shaped around five interpenetrating dimensions: Ecological, Anthropological, Relational, Technological, and Health/Harm/Healing (the EARTH method). The anticipated outcome of this method is the construction of practical theological projects that aim toward practices of care that continue to address concerns of the human, but always and only as the human is understood to be inextricably situated in an expansive cosmic web of entanglement.
Zusammenfassung
Dieser Aufsatz widmet sich den problematischen Implikationen, die sich aus der für das Anthropozän kennzeichnenden menschlichen Herrschaft über die belebte und unbelebte Welt für die Praktische Theologie ergeben. Um diesen zu begegnen, entwickelt er einen methodischen Baukasten zum praktisch-theologischen Experimentieren. Der Aufsatz zeigt, dass die Berücksichtigung von fünf Dimensionen – Ökologie, Anthropologie, Relationalität, Technologie und Gesundheit/Verletzung/Heilung – eine Methodologie entstehen lässt, die menschlichen Anliegen gerecht wird, zugleich aber den Menschen als unauflöslich verquickt mit seiner Umwelt begreift.
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- Frontmatter
- Frontmatter
- Research Articles
- Vorwort
- Wilhelm Gräb (1948–2023)
- Is the Roman Catholic Church in the Philippines Turning Dark Green? Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines’ Environmentalism from Anti-Mining to Climate Crisis Response
- Decentering the Human in Practical Theologies of Care: An EARTH Method
- Meaning-Making Mechanisms on the Boundary between Religion and Sports
- My Body is Where I Exist: Poverty, Disability, and Embodied Resistance as a Theology of Practice
- The Learning of “Integration” in Theological Field Education: A Grounded Theory Study in the Experience of Hong Kong Theological Students
- Empowerment and Transformation: Correlating John of the Cross and Judith Herman for Trauma Healing
- Research Report
- For the Sake of the Church
- Book Reviews
- Kirstine Helboe Johansen and Ulla Schmidt (eds.), Practice, Practice Theory and Theology. Scandinavian and German Perspectives, Practical Theology in the Discourse of the Humanities, Vol. 28, Berlin/Boston (DeGruyter) 2022, 286 pp., ISBN 9783110743760, €99.95
- Darren J. Dias, Jaroslav Z. Skira, Michael S. Attridge, Gerard Mannion (eds.), The Church, Migration, and Global (In)Difference, Cham, Switzerland (Palgrave Macmillan) 2021, 419pp., ISBN 978-3-030-54225-2, $132.82
- Hans-Ulrich Probst, Fußball als Religion? Eine lebensweltanalytische Ethnographie, Bielefeld (transcript) 2022, 343 pp., ISBN 9783837661101, €48.00
- Wendy Cadge and Shelly Rambo (eds.), Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care in the Twenty-first Century: An Introduction (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press), 2022, 320pp., ISBN 978-1-4696-6760-7, $24.95.
