Seminar - The political theology of nature. Encounter with Bruno Latour 21-22 Feb. 2015
On the 21st and 22nd February in the context of a seminar organised by Christophe Boureux, a Dominican and theologian who had earlier participated in our May 2014 [REL] workshop, Bruno Latour was involved in a discussion on the theme of ‘the political theology of nature’.
The discussion can be summarised as follows: ‘from the anthropology of Moderns who are sure of themselves, through to the enigmatic figure of Gaïa, the sudden irruption of ecological mutations requires us to live on a planet understood differently and according to modes of existence that have not yet been devised’.
Here are a few tweets written by Bruno Latour at the end of these two days (find below the translation into English, thanks to Timothy Howles):
Gaia apparaît comme l'occasion du retour sur terre de la religion, de la science & de la politique mais sans être ni figure divine, ni Etat.
— AIME (@AIMEproject) 22 Février 2015L'intérêt de tester EME avec des exégètes c'est de voir combien les techniques d'interprétation sont communes aux sciences et aux religions.
— AIME (@AIMEproject) 22 Février 2015Les religieux chrétiens oublient à quel point les êtres de [REL] sont instables & capables de déclencher des furies s'ils visent l'hégémonie
— AIME (@AIMEproject) 22 Février 2015Si l'on ne parvient pas à articuler écologie & théologie c'est parcequ'il faut confiner [REL] et libérer [REP] de [REF]: insurmontable tâche
— AIME (@AIMEproject) 22 Février 2015Christophe Boureux a écrit 'Dieu est aussi jardinier', 2015, qui explore les ressources de l'Ecriture pour qualifier le gap création/nature.
— AIME (@AIMEproject) 23 Février 2015[Gaia seems to occasion the return of religion, science and politics to the earth, and yet it is neither a divine figure, nor the State].
[The value of running AIME past biblical scholars is to see to what extent interpretative techniques are shared between science and religion].
[Christians who are ‘religious’ tend to forget how instable the beings of [REL] really are, and how they are liable to invoke the Furies wherever they aim for hegemony].
[If we have not yet managed to articulate either ecology or theology, it’s because we have to first clarify [REL], and then liberate [REP] from [REF]: an insuperable task!]
[Christophe Boureux has written ‘God is also a Gardener’, in 2015, which considers the resources provided by Scripture to appropriately designate creation and nature.]