Premium
Nurturing Faith for Action: Theological Education and Global Responsibility
Author(s) -
Rosencrans Kendra
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
dialog
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.114
H-Index - 5
eISSN - 1540-6385
pISSN - 0012-2033
DOI - 10.1111/dial.12133
Subject(s) - dignity , commit , faith , poverty , environmental ethics , action (physics) , face (sociological concept) , order (exchange) , consumerism , sociology , value (mathematics) , political science , public relations , economic growth , law , social science , theology , economics , philosophy , physics , finance , quantum mechanics , database , machine learning , computer science
Ghana hopes to parlay the financial promises of oil recovery into a better life for its people. If Ghana succeeds, it would be a model for the developing world. But Ghana's capacity to overcome poverty and support human dignity will be stronger if the rest of us who also hold that value commit more truly to it. As people of faith, as leaders of institutions, as educators, we face substantive questions about how our own actions, business decisions, and consumptive practices contribute to the larger issues of oil, consumerism, and planetary health. A course that asks not just Christian scholars and clergy, but leaders of theological institutions, church bodies, businesses, and others, to consider an ethical, paradigmatic shift toward a whole‐world ethic of well‐being is in order.