Environment - Theism and Environment
— Routledge Companion to Theism 2013

"Environment" (Theism and Environment). Pages 541-552 in Charles Taliaferro, Victoria S. Harrison, and Stewart Goetz, eds., The Routledge Companion to Theism (London: Routledge, 2013). Online at: http://hdl.handle.net/10217/70411

Ecology portrays a web of life, interdependence, harmony, life persisting in the midst of its perpetual perishing. Such nature commands appropriate respect. Both theism and ecology find a dynamic, enduring Earth and face concerns about environmental sustainability. Monotheists claim that persons must use the Earth both justly and charitably. Loving the land is a central theme of the Hebrew Bible. The fauna is included within the covenant. Humans have dominion, are trustees, stewards — environmental managers. Anciently Palestine was a promised land. Today ecotheologians call for peoples globally to see Earth as a planet with promise.