I then offer a short theological "sketch" that considers how a more robust sacramental imagination might challenge pastors and congregations to think differently about the interlocking relationships between God, humanity, and creation.
It is imperative that churches find creative ways to confront this frightening new reality, but how are we to do so faithfully? In the first half of this article, I suggest that a harmful modern worldview of "disenchantment" is partly to blame for our current environmental crisis, and that this perspective fails to account adequately for God's real presence "in, with, and under" creation.
Anthropogenic climate change poses the greatest existential threat humans have ever faced as a species. Barfield Elementary School students kick off Soles4Souls shoe drive Mealand Ragland-Hudgins Murfreesboro Daily News Journal 0:00 18:07 Several years ago, Jeni Sanders three children set a lofty goal of collecting 50,000 pairs of shoes and donating them to Nashville nonprofit Soles4Souls. The final version of this article may be found in Review & Expositor 116, no. The authors present the Laudato Si’ as a universal invitation and a space for encounter between world religions that puts at its heart love as a guiding principle and animating force of a much-needed ecological, spiritual and anthropological conversion. Moving from the spiritual dimension of nature in the light of Pope Francis’s 2015 encyclical on ecology Laudato Si’, the authors argue that the current ecological crisis can represent an opportunity for a renewed encounter among religions, bringing together the ethical and the spiritual, recovering the element of communion between human beings and nature that points to something beyond themselves. In this article, the authors explore the specific contribution that Christianity and Islam can offer in this debate and how religions can help bring back into the ecological discourse the element of the sacred that abandoned the reflection about nature since the advent of the Enlightenment. Many people are raising their voices in support of nature to build a better future for humanity and for our planet. The environmental crisis is undoubtedly one of the most critical and urgent problems of our times.
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