TY - JOUR
T1 - Kristendommen og Pave Frans
T2 - det religiøse sprog og naturen
AU - Cristoffanini, Pablo Rolando
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - The present article analyses ways of speaking and writing about nature in the Judeo-Christian tradition that help to explain and understand the dominating, conquering and exploitative conceptions and behaviors that Western civilization has had of nature. These, are by many researchers consider to be some of the current ecological crisis. The present Pope, Francis, has elaborated an alternative discourse and vision of the relationship between God, human beings and nature in his encyclical Latudato Si, in which he advocates for an attitude of respect, protection and safeguarding of nature that requires a different way of life. To understand the meanings and consequences of these differing discourses of nature the article uses the philosophy of language and especially of the religious language of Wittgenstein. One of the main reasons is the claim of the Austrian philosopher regarding the importance of religion as a game of language, different from that of the science. Religion enable us to value everything that exists, and together with ethics and art, provide us with guidelines as of how to live and relate to the world.
AB - The present article analyses ways of speaking and writing about nature in the Judeo-Christian tradition that help to explain and understand the dominating, conquering and exploitative conceptions and behaviors that Western civilization has had of nature. These, are by many researchers consider to be some of the current ecological crisis. The present Pope, Francis, has elaborated an alternative discourse and vision of the relationship between God, human beings and nature in his encyclical Latudato Si, in which he advocates for an attitude of respect, protection and safeguarding of nature that requires a different way of life. To understand the meanings and consequences of these differing discourses of nature the article uses the philosophy of language and especially of the religious language of Wittgenstein. One of the main reasons is the claim of the Austrian philosopher regarding the importance of religion as a game of language, different from that of the science. Religion enable us to value everything that exists, and together with ethics and art, provide us with guidelines as of how to live and relate to the world.
KW - Christianity
KW - Pope Francis
KW - language games
KW - nature
U2 - 10.5278/ojs.globe.v7i0.2442
DO - 10.5278/ojs.globe.v7i0.2442
M3 - Tidsskriftartikel
SN - 2246-8838
VL - 7
SP - 22
EP - 33
JO - Globe: A Journal of Language, Culture and Communication
JF - Globe: A Journal of Language, Culture and Communication
ER -