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2019 / An eco-doctrine from the modern Catholic Church enabled in the vision of the first Pope to name himself Francis, after the patron saint of the environment, Francis of Assisi

• https://cnstopstories.com/2019/11/15/catechism-will-be-updated-to-include-ecological-sins-pope-says/

Eco-Theology

Religion and Climate Change: A Necessary Conversation

The relationship of theology to the modern ecological crisis became an intense issue of debate in Western academia in 1967, following the publication of the article, "The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis, " by Lynn White, Jr., Professor of History at the University of California at Los Angeles. In this work, White puts forward a theory that the Christian model of human dominion over nature has led to environmental devastation, providing a voice for "The Ecological Complaint".

Some scholars argue that Christians actually helped bring about the current global environmental crisis by instructing followers that God, and by extension mankind, transcends nature. Much of the development of ecotheology as a theological discourse was in response to this argument, which has been called "The Ecological Complaint". Defendants of this perspective essentially claim that Christianity promotes the idea of human dominion over nature, treating nature itself as a tool to be used and even exploited for survival and prosperity. However, Christianity has often been viewed as the source of positive values towards the environment, and there are many voices within the Christian tradition whose vision embraces the well-being of the earth and all creatures...

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecotheology

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Eco-Schism in the Christian Faith

Now there are some who believe in a 'global warming hoax', evangelism, prophecy, end times -- and there are those more 'on earth', who believe in 'our common home' and in a moral imperative to 'care for our common home'. Take a look at a profound schism growing within the Christian church, a 'split' in beliefs that will act to shape our future life, our future common life on earth, however we look at faith and religion. The actual number of Christians in the world is estimated in the range of 2 - 3 billion, with over 1.2 billion Catholics ...

Here's Senator Jim Inhofe, perhaps the most powerful man on environmental policy in the U.S. Senate, his philosophy of a scientific 'climate hoax', why he believes as he does, and why he wields his power to fit his religious beliefs...

Senator Jim Inhofe & President Donald Trump on Climate -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_News

Sen. Inhofe and President Trump, 'Global Warming is a Hoax'

Here's Pope Francis, the first pontiff to name himself after the Catholic Church's patron saint of the environment, St. Francis. The Jesuit pope has offered humanity a first Catholic eco-encyclical and doctrine ... Laudato Si'

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Pope_Francis_on_the_Environment
• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Laudato_Si

Eco-theology / "On Care for Our Common Home"

"Protect, do not destroy the environment"

† Pope Francis on the Environment

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Pope_Francis_on_the_Environment

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Laudato_Si

† Laudato Si

† Integral Ecology

† Destroying the Environment Is a Sin

† Tom Hayden-Green Politics...In Memory

† Rights of Nature EarthLaw

Fear not the facts, the science

Trust in observing and studying and stewarding, the earth and creation calls you

An interview with Katharine Hayhoe

Via Christian Courier

Atmospheric scientist and evangelical Christian Katharine Hayhoe was named one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People for her work studying climate change. She teaches in the Department of Political Science at Texas Tech University but her roots are Canadian: Hayhoe was born in Toronto and her father teaches at Tyndale University College and Seminary.

The Christian Courier Editor speaks with Hayhoe about the relationship between her faith and the “other” book of God – Science ....

Dr. Katharine Hayhoe is an evangelical Christian on a mission

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth, and the Earth was shapeless and barren, so God added light and water and land and sky and plants and animals and humans. If you extend this belief forward, then God also created coal and oil and gas, which we began burning to do our own creating, on a massive scale. Health and wealth flowered across the planet, but there were consequences: first for the poor and marginalized, who were more exposed to the pollution, and then for everyone, in the form of a changing climate that is endangering creation. Stretch the belief a bit further, and in 1972, God created Katharine Hayhoe, who would grow up to be both an evangelical Christian and a climate scientist. Join these identities together, and you get another of God’s creations: a prophet.

It's all related, it's all connected

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Eco-Spirituality

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiritual_ecology

The Challenge of Acting for the Commons

† The Commons

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