Spirituality + Science = Care for Creation: Retrieving a Franciscan Cosmology for Climate Conservation Keith Douglass Warner OFM

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1 Spirituality + Science = Care for Creation: Retrieving a Franciscan Cosmology for Climate Conservation Keith Douglass Warner OFM 1

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7 The work of religious environmentalism Reinterpret the tradition Provide social critique Foster the continuing evolution of religion 7 7

8 The work of Franciscan retrieval Reinterpret the tradition Provide social critique Foster the continuing evolution of religion 8 8

9 Renewing the Earth Renewng the Earth 9 9

10 I/We Pledge to: 1 PRAY and reflect on the duty to care for God s Creation and protect the poor and vulnerable. Renewing the Earth 2 LEARN about and educate Renewng others the on Earth the causes and moral dimensions of climate change. 1. The St. Francis Pledge 3 ASSESS I/We how Pledge we-as to: individuals and in our families, parishes and other affiliations-contribute to climate change by our own energy use, consumption, vulnerable. waste, etc. 1 PRAY and reflect on the duty to care for God s Creation and protect the poor and 2 LEARN about and educate others on the causes and moral dimensions of climate chan 4 ACT to change our choices and behaviors to reduce the ways we contribute to climate change. 3 ASSESS how we-as individuals and in our families, parishes and other affiliationscontribute to climate change by our own energy use, consumption, waste, etc. 5 ADVOCATE for Catholic principles and priorities in climate change discussions and decisions, especially as they impact those who are poor and vulnerable. 4 ACT to change our choices and behaviors to reduce the ways we contribute to climate change ADVOCATE for Catholic principles and priorities in climate change discussions and decisions, especially as they impact those who are poor and vulnerable. 10

11 Dan Dan Miseh of the Catholic Coalition on Climate Change an alum of FST! 11 11

12 Retrieving the Franciscan tradition can: 12

13 Retrieving the Franciscan tradition can: 1.animate religious engagement with contemporary environmental crises 12

14 Retrieving the Franciscan tradition can: 1.animate religious engagement with contemporary environmental crises 2. unite loving and knowing within a Franciscan incarnational worldview 12

15 Retrieving the Franciscan tradition can: 1.animate religious engagement with contemporary environmental crises 2. unite loving and knowing within a Franciscan incarnational worldview 3. assist in the recovery of an integral Catholic cosmology 12

16 Retrieving the Franciscan tradition TO 1.animate religious engagement with contemporary environmental crises 2. unite loving and knowing within a Franciscan incarnational worldview 3. assist in the recovery of an integral Catholic cosmology 13

17 1. Retrieval to animate religious engagement with our environmental crises 14 14

18 The work of retrieving St Francis Problem 1: exessive sentimentalism Problem 2: patron saint of those who promote ecology Problem 3: idiosyncratic exception to Christianity 15 15

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20 John Paul II named Francis patron saint of... 17

21 Parallel retrieval processes FRANCISCAN TRADITION GREENING OF CATHOLICISM

22 Parallel retrieval processes FRANCISCAN TRADITION GREENING OF CATHOLICISM Vatican II: return to charism of founders 1960 Francis is socially relevant th anniversary of his birth Franciscan family = movement 1980 Clare: 1st Franciscan woman 1990 Rediscovery of broader intellectual inheritance

23 Parallel retrieval processes FRANCISCAN TRADITION Vatican II: return to charism of founders 1960 GREENING OF CATHOLICISM Lynn White Historic Roots of Our Ecological Crisis Francis is socially relevant 1970 John Paul II: Francis as Patron Saint of those who Cultivate Ecology 800th anniversary of his birth Franciscan family = movement 1980 The Ecological Crisis: A Common Responsibility (John Palul II) Clare: 1st Franciscan woman 1990 Renewing the Earth (US Bishops) Rediscovery of broader intellectual inheritance 2000 St Francis Pledge 20 20

24 Ecological Vocation Awareness Conversion 21 21

25 Ecoliteracy ~ cultivate ecological!!! awareness 22

26 Ecoliteracy: the ability to understand the natural systems that make life on Earth possible. 23

27 Ecoliteracy: the ability to understand the natural systems that make life on Earth possible. David Orr 24

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29 Patron saint of those who foster ecoliteracy 26

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31 2. Retrieval to unite loving and knowing within a Franciscan incarnational worldview 28

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35 Bonaventure of Bagnoregio 32 32

36 John Duns Scotus 33 33

37 Not only theology and philosophy! Economics Politics Science Culture 34 34

38 Economics Friar Anthony of Padua ( ) preaches against hoarding 35 35

39 Politics! Franciscan Friar John of Plano Carpini ( ) was sent as an ambassador by Pope Innocent IV to the Mongol Capital of Karakorum 36

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41 Roger Bacon (c ) Theologian-natural philosopher 38

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44 ! We know by experience that he who is at the top of the mast can see the port more quickly than a man on the deck of the ship. Therefore it remains that something hinders the vision of the man on the deck of the ship. But there can be nothing but the swelling of the sphere of water. 41

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48 Culture Bernardino de Sahagun ( ) 45

49 Bernardino de Sahagun in Mesoamerica Missionaryanthropologist 46

50 ! Colegio de Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco! First European school of higher learning in the Americas (Franciscan!) 47

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54 La Historia General de las Cosas de Nueva Espana aka Florentine Codex 51

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56 Historia General as medieval encyclopedia 1. Gods, religious beliefs and rituals, cosmology, and moral philosophy 2. Society (family, politics, economics, + anatomy and disease) 3. Natural history

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71 Loving & knowing in a Franciscan cosmology 1. Science + spirituality (w/ ethics) 68 68

72 Loving & knowing in a Franciscan cosmology Incarnational (embodied) Relational ( ecology ) Creation is theophanic is morally significant 69 69

73 3. Retrieval to assist in the recovery of an integral Catholic cosmology 70 70

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75 Those who have benefitted the least from burning fossil fuels are suffering the most from climate disruption, and those who have benefitted have the obligation to help others to cope and to adapt 72 72

76 Countries that have benefitted the most from burning fossil fuels 73 73

77 1. Climate disruption vulnerability index 74 74

78 Bangladesh Maldives 1. Climate disruption vulnerability index 75 75

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92 Renewing the Earth Renewng the Earth 89 89

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95 Conclusion Model of conversion + ecoliteracy 92

96 Franciscan Care for Creation = Spirituality + Science 93

97 Integrated living, loving and knowing to confront our crises 94

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