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Transition to Ecological Civilization and Theological Prospect:Focus on Organic Philosophy of Whitehead and Geology of Thomas Berry

Environmental improvement could not be the solution for a modern ecological crisis. The transition of civilization is gaining persuasive power through an organic world-view of the perspective of post-anthropocentric subjectivity according to the concept of pan-experientialism. This means that all beings are interconnected, taking into account the ideals and purposes of the community. Accordingly, the anthropocentric civilization must be converted into a civilization of all beings including nature. God has meaning as the purpose of the evolution of this world. Thomas Berry sees the modern world as a period of transition from the Cenozoic to a new civilization called Ecozoic. In the Cenozoic era, the distorted myth of anthropocentric progress has damaged the life system and lost the ability of creation. However, the Earth s history predicts that a new era will be opened through the transformation of civilization, and it has been defined as an “ecozoic”. We can find more possibilities in the Eastern way of thought than Western for Ecological civilization. The ethos of Asian religions can be a blessing for Christianity to be reborn for a new ecological civilization through the Asian way of theology.