What is the role of man within Creation? Each era, each generation, each society confronts this question according to its relationship to the World: immutable, inexhaustible or limited and destructible? Today, ecological issues are associated with major threats to humanity: resource depletion, massive environmental pollution, destruction or genetic manipulation of living species. We now fear for the survival of humanity because of misuse of the created world. This new situation challenges Christianity and forces it to reopen the chapter of the theology of Creation to answer the question of human responsibility towards the world entrusted by God. This book brings together the contributions of several Protestant theologians who have worked on these questions in depth.
The Bible never directly evokes ecological issues as they present themselves today, but it is shot through with an eschatological urgency, particularly in the texts received from Judaism, which has always inspired theologians and pushed Christians to engage in the defense of the environment in the name of their faith. What do the Scriptures teach us and what are the main questions?
This work corresponds to a Protestant response which testifies to the same fundamental intuition and carries the same hope as the Encyclical Laudato Si of Pope Francis. It brings another sensitivity and deploys the authors' own point of view inspired by numerous biblical references, the thought of John Calvin and more contemporary Protestant thinkers like Jacques Ellul. Other disciplines, such as economics, art and sciences, are also called upon in a global approach and come to resituate humanity in the face of its challenges.
ISBN: 9782365261142