Ecotheology

Ecotheology examines relationships between religious traditions, human beings, and the natural environment. It interprets ecological crises through religious ideas and develops theological responses to them.

Creation theology: Theological reflection on the origin, nature, and purpose of the created world. Ecotheology asks what belief in creation implies for care of the living world.
Lynn White Jr.: An American historian whose 1967 essay linked Western Christianity to attitudes enabling ecological exploitation. His challenge helped provoke modern theological debate about Christianity and environmental damage.
Climate theology: Theological reflection on climate change, its causes, consequences, and moral demands. It applies ecotheological reasoning directly to the climate crisis.
Secular environmentalism: Environmental advocacy and thought grounded in secular ethical, scientific, or political frameworks. Comparing it with ecotheology clarifies how religious premises shape environmental arguments.
Stewardship (theology): The religious idea that humans hold duties of care toward what belongs to God. Stewardship is a major framework for assigning humans ecological responsibility.
The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis: Lynn White Jr.’s 1967 essay arguing that Western religious ideas helped shape destructive attitudes toward nature. This influential essay made Christianity’s ecological legacy a central question for the field.
Environmental ethics: The branch of philosophy that examines moral relationships between humans and the natural environment. Ecotheology contributes religious grounds for environmental duties and judgments.
Environmentalism: A broad movement seeking to protect the natural environment and address environmental harm. Ecotheology is one religious approach within the wider pursuit of environmental protection.
Imago Dei: The theological doctrine that human beings are created in the image of God. Interpretations of human distinctiveness shape arguments about authority over nature.
Rachel Carson: An American marine biologist and writer whose 1962 book Silent Spring exposed harms from pesticide use. Her work helped make environmental damage a public concern to which religious thinkers responded.

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PanentheismRelated: Panentheism can ground ecological care in the world's intimate relation to God.