Jurnal of Religious Issues

let's save religious destruction by dialogue

Reconsidering Ethical environment

What is the better way to see the environment issues? There are many way of course. One way, introduced by knitter is religious and ethic. However, he recommended that the better way is trough ethic, because religion also include ethic inside. He states that “if the religions, together, take these ethical environmental problems seriously, they will find the common ground on which to share their religious stories and perhaps hear the religious message of what science is telling them about the earth”. Ethic, for knitter, perhaps more universal because it can be from God or human reflections of his/her experience. Additionally, he argues “if the environment is providing the religious communities of the world with a shared foundational moral experience, is it not thereby also providing them with a shared foundation for religious experience.
< span class="fullpost" >That what knitter suggest is really interesting. By ethical approach, we can move to many possibilities to conduct the world from different of believe, and how the different believe which is incommensurable each other dealing to do to the world. However, ethic provides the whole story of earth which is myth which suitable to all religions. By that way, I agree with knitter that we explicitly can get the religious message. It is not differential content of message, but except epistemological background of knowledge.
Knitter have interested point that “Religious persons who struggle together to save the earth can better talk together and share together about that which makes them religious”. What kind of dialog or conversation we need? I see, in the mystical approach we have no problem, because mystic almost common in ground. As such knitter says that mystical experience in which one feels the Sacred Call within the ethical commitment. The ethical commitment is the root of all religions to meet and to make dialogues.< /span >

AddThis Social Bookmark Button

0 comments

Post a Comment