Asproulis, Nikolaos2019-09-252019-09-252016-08-3020169782889311446http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/156821"In recent years, global community experiences unprecedented situations of political, social and financial instability due to the accumulation of acute problems which influence people’s lives not only on the individual level but also towards the balance of the interpersonal relations and their reference to natural environment. Following often an extremely rationalist and individualist worldview and being addicted to an unlimited supremacy over nature for many centuries, the human being was trapped in his narcissism and his ardent desire for power. Seeking for the constant increase of the economical profit in combination with the irrational and avaricious consumption of the natural recourses and sources of energy, the especially (post)modern human attempted to give meaning to his existence in terms of radical immanence, with concerted actions towards a utilitarian model which prioritizes the individual ephemeral enjoyment and wealth accumulation, while neglecting the future of creation or the goods’ equalizing and social justice. In this perspective, the current dominant anthropological model of homo economicus,111 as it is evidenced by our gloomy economic situation which is an after-effect of the extreme neo-liberal economic theory112 put forth by the audacious capitalism,113 along with the refugee and migrant crisis114 which afflicts during the last years the whole European continent and especially the Mediterranean basin, as a result of the war and religious fundamentalism in Middle East, thought that he could ex officio play the role of the King and the Lord of the World and of History in the place of the very Almighty God the Father. Paper delivered at the international consultation on "Resources and Best Practice Models for Ecotheology, Climate Justice and Food Security", held at the Academy of Volos, Demetriades Diocese of Church of Greece, 10-13 March, 2016Pages:187-208engCreative Commons Copyright (CC 2.5)orthodoxEco-TheologySocial Ethicsrole of religionVolos 2016Political ethicsEconomic ethicsConsumer ethicsReligious ethicsMethods of ethicsTheological ethicsCommunity ethicsLifestyle ethicsEducation and ethicsEnvironmental ethicsResources ethicsBiodiversity ethicsEcumenismEcumenical MovementWorld Council of ChurchesRegional, national ecumenical organizationsBiblical TheologyDogmaticsEcclesiologyPractical theology and theological educationTeaching of theology, ecumenism, religionsLiturgy, spiritual formationTraining of church leadersTheological schools, associationsPractical theologyBook chapter