LIVING LIFE TO THE FULL: THE SPIRIT AND ECO-FEMINIST SPIRITUALITY

• Main Author: Susan Rakoczy
• Format: Article
• Language: Afrikaans
• Published: Stellenbosch University 2013-06-01
• Series: Scriptura
• Subjects: José Comblin; Heather Eaton; Denis Edwards; Ecofeminism; Ivone Gebara; Mary Grey; Holy Spirit; Ignatius of Loyola; Elizabeth Johnson; Jürgen Moltmann; Pneumatology; Rosemary Radford Ruether; Spirituality
• Online Access: http://scriptura.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/14

<p>José Comblin, a Latin American liberation theologian, described the presence of the Spirit in five dimensions: action, freedom, speech, community and life. These pro-vide the foundation for developing an ecological pneumatology leading to transfor-mative praxis for the good of all creation. The insights of various eco-feminist theologians such as Heather Eaton, Ivone Gebara, Mary Grey, Elizabeth Johnson and Rosemary Radford Ruether demonstrate how Comblin’s five-fold pneumatology can enrich eco-feminist spirituality. Spirituality is based on experience of the Sacred, the Divine. The foundation of eco-feminist spirituality is life and liberation; it is holistic, embracing all that is created since nothing is absent from the presence of God. Themes from the Ignatian spiritual tradition of ‘seeking and finding God in all things’ also provide a helpful discernment heuristic in this time of ecological challenge.</p><p> </p><p>doi: 10.7833/111-1-14</p>