Today´s world is affected by crisis upon crisis. This is, however, nothing new. Humankind throughout history has seen various crisis periods, wich often were forerunners of a new era. This book undertakes to analyze the various characterictics of our transition perios, focused on its vertical dimension. The editors are convinced that transcendency in inherent in the entire creation. They tend to design in wich respect the problems affect and influence people and to show a way in wich people can change and improve their life conditions. The project of the book aims at involving the whle Oikoumene, i. e. the entire inhabited earth.
Contributiosn were writter by a vast range of first rank specialists from all over the world.
Idolatry of the present global economic system. Creation and nature. New concerns for life. New ways of doing theology. Justice and human rights. Nonviolence - violence; peace-wars. New perspective for tomorrow.
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