ABSTRACT
Any new constructive work on religious naturalism must engage the realities and uncertainties of life in the Anthropocene. This chapter argues that the Anthropocene paradox compels and creates the conditions for new ways of conceptualizing the intersection of theology, the political, and political theology. It articulates a theopolitical framework for the Anthropocene that constructively draws from the resources of religious naturalism. For the Anthropocene is an ecospheric as well as a sociocultural condition, a problem for the whole of the present and future of human life that has been caused by a small historical subset of the species. Since the Anthropocene emerges out of the intersection of two histories, planetary and political, interpreting it compels us to think on multiple levels, the particular and universal. A political theology of religious naturalism is committed to the precariousness of natura naturata and the profundity of natura naturans.
