Creation and Christology: The Ecological Crisis and Eschatological Ethics

2017, 20 pp
In a time of ‘ecological crisis,’ what is the response of the Christian church? Does the biblical narrative offer an alternative account of how humanity should live in relation with the Earth? Or rather, is it the biblical narrative itself which is the cause of our current ecological predicament?3 Confronted by the constant stream of pessimism detailing the sheer enormity of global ecological devastation and the irreparable damage that will stem from human-induced climate change, is the Church’s proclamation of the ‘gospel’ simply a case of blind optimism avoiding reality – an opium designed to numb us from the ‘bad news’ of a bleak future? To what extent does Christian faith offer genuine hope?

In this essay Andrew Shepherd argues that a Christian account of creation and the ethical implications that stem from such an account are inextricably Christological and eschatological by nature.

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