Climate Change, Radical Uncertainty and Hope

Theology and Economics in Conversation

Jan Jorrit Hasselaar (Autor)

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180 Seiten

2025
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978-1-041-17707-4 (ISBN)

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Views on climate change are often either pessimistic or optimistic. In this book Jan Jorrit Hasselaar discovers and explores a third way, one of hope. A debate within economics on risk and uncertainty brings him to theological questions and the concept of hope in the work of the late Jonathan Sacks—and to a renewed way of doing theology as an account of the good life. What follows is an equal conversation between theology and economics as has hardly been undertaken in recent times. It emerges that hope is not contrary to economic insights, but remarkably compatible with them. Communication between these fields of expertise can open the way for a courageous and creative embrace of radical uncertainty in climate change. A key notion here is that of a public Sabbath, or a ‘workplace of hope’—times and places set aside to cultivate inspiration and mutual trust among all parties involved, enabling them to take concrete steps forward.

Dr. Jan Jorrit Hasselaar, theologian and economist, is Director of the Amsterdam Centre for Religion and Sustainable Development, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He is research fellow of the University of the Western Cape (South Africa). Hasselaar chaired the working group ‘Sustainable Development’ of the Council of Churches in the Netherlands (2011-2018).

Preface, Chapter 1 Introduction, Chapter 2 Stating the Problem: Radical Uncertainty, Chapter 3 Theology and Economics in Conversation, Chapter 4 Jonathan Sacks' Understanding of Hope, Chapter 5 Transversal Reasoning on Emunah, Chapter 6 Transversal Reasoning on Chessed, Chapter 7 Transversal Reasoning on Change of Identity, Chapter 8 Transversal Reasoning on Narrative, Chapter 9 Conclusions, Bibliography.

Erscheinungsdatum	03.12.2025
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	1-041-17707-0 / 1041177070
ISBN-13	978-1-041-17707-4 / 9781041177074
Zustand	Neuware