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INTERRELATING NATURE, HUMANITY, AND THE WORK OF GOD: SOME ISSUES FOR FUTURE REFLECTION
Author(s) -
Peters Karl E.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
zygon®
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1467-9744
pISSN - 0591-2385
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9744.1992.tb01076.x
Subject(s) - humanity , kinship , meaning (existential) , value (mathematics) , environmental ethics , sociology , epistemology , work (physics) , social psychology , psychology , political science , philosophy , anthropology , law , computer science , engineering , mechanical engineering , machine learning
. This essay suggests some future items for an agenda about human viability, defined as survivability with meaning and purpose, by exploring interrelations between nature, humanity, and the work of God. It argues for intrinsic and creative value in nature, so there is a value kinship, as well as a factual kinship, between humans, nature, and God‐working. It considers humans as “webs of culture, life, and cosmos” and suggests some implications of this notion of human nature for viability. And it asks what human fulfillment can be in light of the awesome creative‐destroying‐recreative activity that seems to be the ground of an evolving universe.