Stewardship

• Burning fossil fuels has increased the planet's temperature
• Ice sheets have thinned by 40% since 1970
• Sea levels are predicted to rise by 90cm by 2100
• 20% of the population controls 80% of resources
• Christian views

  1. Increase in attempts to develop eco-theology
  2. Many still take a dominion view
  3. Pope Francis wrote a letter (Lavdato Si) to urge others to care for the environment
  4. Caring for the environment is mandated by the fifth mark of mission
• Sallie McFague

  • Feminist Christian
  • Said the current environmental crisis is a product of the patriarchal church
  • Aimed for Christians to see the world as God's body (linked to paganism)
• Lynn White Jr

  • Nothing will change until we reject dominion