"the prophetic-messianic tradition promises peace and harmony in nature as well as justice lived in all areas of life. It is no coincidence that the Jubilee includes more than human beings. Everything has to be given a chance to recover itself: human beings from debt, animals from overwork, and the land itself from overuse. Nothing is to be placed in a situation of enslavement to another, but all must have some respect accorded it."
Lisa Isherwood. (1999)
Liberating Christ: Exploring the Christologies of Contemporary Liberation Movements. Ohio: The Pilgrim Press
Important Lessons from the Bible
Why Jesus came:
"that the world might be saved through him"
John 3:17
Who Jesus is going to use to save the world:
"For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God."
Romans 8:19
Our role on earth:
"The LORD God put the man in the Garden of Eden to take care of it and to look after it."
Genesis 2:15
The Five Pillars of A Christian Theology of Sustainability
1. God is the creator, sustainer and redeemer of creation.
2. Covenantal Stewardship (we have a covenant with God as stewards of the earth).
3. The creation-fall-redemption paradigm (God made a good world; human failure broke the relationships between god, man and creation; Christ provides hope for all creation).
4.Bodily resurrection(we will rise with bodies, not as spirits)
5.New Creation (a new Heaven and new Earth refers to a renewal and an earthing of heaven, not starting over).
Adapted from When Enough is Enough: A Christian Framework for Environmental Sustainability, Edited by R.J. Berry, Published by Inter-Varsity Press, 2007, Nottingham p43+
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