TY - T1 - The Pastoral Challenge of the Environmental Crisis : Environmental Anxiety and Lutheran Eco-Reformation SN - / UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/304386 T3 - A1 - Pihkala, Panu Petteri A2 - PB - Y1 - 2016 LA - eng AB - Plans for a Lutheran “eco-reformation” are complicated by the polarization of views related to environmental issues. I argue that there is a special reason to take the agenda of eco-reformation seriously: a widespread and often unconscious environmental anxiety, which posits a pastoral and existential challenge that must be addressed by the churches. I contextualize the challenge of eco-reformation in the historical context of Lutheran eco-theology. Finally, I briefly discuss two key themes for ... VO - IS - SP - OP - KW - 614 Theology; ecotheology; eco-reformation; eco-anxiety; lutheran theology; Climate change; environmental ethics; environmental philosophy; nature N1 - PP - ER -