Global Civilization: Challenges to Society and to Christianity

by Boff,Leonardo

• ISBN13: 9781845530051
• ISBN10: 1845530055
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2014-08-08
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Leonardo Boff is one of the founders of Liberation Theology. He remains a seminal thinker within Christian Theology. First published in Portuguese under the title, "Civilization Planetaria, Global Civilization is a philosophical and theological enquiry into the various elements of the globalisation process, including market forces, politics, military force, technology and science, communication and spirituality. Boff understands that the process of globalisation affects all spheres of human life, and it represents a new phase in human evolution and a new stage for Earth itself. In the present we will walk a difficult path since globalisation represents a 'revolution' in which a number of issues, such as consciousness, the meaning of life. holiness, the economy politics, culture, work standards and ethics, are being redefined. However, Boff presents a very optimistic future for humankind, as he envisages that the Earth will become the 'true home' for all human beings.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Introduction	1	(5)
Part I The Rise of a New Global Civilization
Chapter 1 The New Nature of Technological Progress	6	(15)
Chapter 2 The Process of Globalization	21	(9)
Chapter 3 The Rise of a New Global Consciousness	30	(4)
Chapter 4 The Direction of the Current Globalization Process: Is this the Creation of a Noosphere?	34	(3)
Chapter 5 Christianity's Contribution to the New Civilization	37	(6)
Chapter 6 Conclusion to Part I: Fidelity to the Greatest of Dreams	43	(5)
Part II The New World Order and Christianity
Chapter 7 The World Crisis from the Ethical and Political Perspective of the South	48	(4)
Chapter 8 The Roots of the World Crisis	52	(4)
Chapter 9 Towards a New Alliance	56	(5)
Chapter 10 How Much does Christianity Help with the Construction of the 21st Century?	61	(6)
Chapter 11 Conclusion to Part II: We are all Eagles	67	(4)
Part III Conclusion
Chapter 12 Recreating a Utopic Horizon	71	(4)
Appendix A: Earth's Charter	75	(8)
Appendix B: The Ages of Globalization	83	(6)
Appendix C: The Globalization Process and its Challenges to Liberation Theology	89	(8)
Notes	97	(2)
Bibliography and Further Reading	99	(2)
Index of Subjects	101	(2)
Index of Names	103