What is it about?
This is my doctoral thesis The author reclaims the patristic Christological use of perichoresis by showing how in bringing together different entities, such as God and Nature in unity as the one person of Christ, we can acknowledge the perichoresis between divine human and nature. Christological perichoresis supports the idea that the whole creation is included in God’s recreated cosmos, in response to the redeeming power of Christ who entered the web of life as a creature. Trinitarian relationships bear a Christological message for intentional openness towards the «other».
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Why is it important?
My point of view Ecofeminism can be considered from a Christian view, realizing Christ’s «cosmic» role in the salvation of the entire cosmos.
Perspectives
I decided to complete a theological thesis while doing volunteer work with church women. I began to consider how in our wider οίκος-the cosmos, humans are one species among many other species, and women constitute almost one-half of humanity. Yet the domination of a group of people over other groups could be known as a social dimension of exploitation of our οίκος-planet earth and our wider οίκος-the cosmos. We speak of the ‘domination of nature including the oppression of women and of other subordinated groups of people’. An analysis of the theological constructs that justify the oppression of women and nature view the oppression of women as part of nature’s exploitation.
Dr Ioanna Sahinidou
GEC Greek Evangelical Church
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This page is a summary of: Hope for the Suffering Ecosystems of Our Planet, February 2014, Peter Lang, International Academic Publishers,
DOI: 10.3726/978-3-653-04213-9.
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