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An‐Archy and Awakening: The Ethical and Political Temporalities of Christology and Pneumatology[1][, ]
Author(s) -
Eaton Matthew
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
the heythrop journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.127
H-Index - 10
eISSN - 1468-2265
pISSN - 0018-1196
DOI - 10.1111/heyj.12984
Subject(s) - divinity , materialism , humanity , pneumatology , philosophy , christology , temporalities , theology , politics , religious studies , christianity , epistemology , law , political science
This article constructs an ecological theology following Emmanuel Levinas’ philosophy of religion. I suggest that the Son and Spirit express divinity through corporeal and temporal realities best described through Levinas’ ideas concerning the an‐archy and awakening of time. Following Levinas, and theologians such as Mark I Wallace, I construct a materialist theology that blurs the line between God and corporeal bodies, positing that such an understanding of the Son and Spirit re‐sacralizes nature in a way that assists Christianity in overcoming the tenuous relationship between humanity and Earth.