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The Theology of Climate Change: Sin as Agency in the Enlightenment's Anthropocene

机译:气候变化神学:启蒙人类世间的罪恶代理

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This article surveys a brief and forgotten episode in the history of climate science when a handful of European scholars at the turn of the eighteenth century formulated some of the first theories of global climate change. Appearing incidentally in several works of world history, these conjectural accounts of a dramatic downturn in the earth's ancient climate following Noah's Flood were intended to explain the physical and spiritual decline of humankind since biblical times. Although theories of local climate change were becoming widespread in this moment, theories of global climate change were distinguished by their emphasis on sin as a potent form of human agency capable of transforming the entire planet, a global force no less powerful and deadly for being largely unintentional. I focus on the Italian physician and naturalist Antonio Vallisneri (1661-1730), whose emphasis on the physical suffering of humans as a result of climate change highlighted the role of humans in bringing such a calamity about in the first place. Paying attention to these long-neglected theories illuminates the key role of religion in fostering the idea of a global climate capable of alteration by human activity.
机译:本文回顾了气候科学史上一个简短而被遗忘的事件,当时少数欧洲学者在18世纪初提出了一些全球气候变化的首批理论。这些偶然地出现在世界历史的著作中的这些推测,是对诺亚洪水之后地球古代气候急剧下降的推测,旨在解释自圣经时代以来人类在物质和精神上的衰落。尽管当地的气候变化理论在此刻得到了广泛的传播,但全球气候变化的理论却因着重强调了罪恶而著称,罪恶是一种有力形式的人类机构,能够改变整个星球,全球力量同样强大而致命无意的。我关注的是意大利医师和博物学家安东尼奥·瓦利斯纳(Antonio Vallisneri,1661-1730年),他强调气候变化给人类带来的身体痛苦,着重强调了人类在带来这种灾难方面的作用。对这些长期被忽视的理论的关注阐明了宗教在树立能够被人类活动改变的全球气候的观念中的关键作用。

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    《Environmental history》 |2015年第2期|217-237|共21页
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    Barnett Lydia;

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    Bates Coll, Dept Hist, Lewiston, ME 04240 USA;

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  • 入库时间 2022-08-17 23:05:03

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