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The concept of “ecological sin”: the meaning and the main lines of criticism

Ganelina Anna Fedorovna

PhD in Philosophy, research fellow at the Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences; assistant at the Department of History of Russian Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia, Moscow, anna.fed.mak@gmail.com

Abstract

The article examines the concept of “ecological sin”, which has recently appeared in ecotheological discourse; the author identifies the main stages in the development of this concept in the texts and speeches of religious (Christian) and secular thinkers, its didactic potential, as well as the vulnerabilities of the idea of “ecological sin”. The author comes to the conclusion about the probable inconsistency of the term “ecological sin” from both Christian and secular points of view.

Keywords

ecotheology; ecological sin; environmental ethics; Christian philosophy; total de-pravity.

For citing: Ganelina A. F. (2024) The concept of “ecologicalsin”: the meaning and the main lines of criticism. Human being: Image and essence. Humanitarian aspects. Moscow. INION RAN.Vol. 4 (60). pp. 82-97. DOI: 10.31249/chel/2024.04.05

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