process theology January 7, 2009
Posted by relsdork in God, christian, environment, nature, religion.Tags: c. robert mesle, environmentalism, process theology
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The God of Process Theology offers a constructive framework with which to approach the environment. Seeing God as acting within all forms of life, we can understand the value of life and respect them as having equal rights to existing and flourishing. In viewing all forms as actual occasions, we can see ourselves in community and act in mutual respect and compassionate service toward all other life forms.
“On this planet, we are probably the creatures most capable of perceiving and responding to God’s vision of a different, better world. God’s primary avenue for liberation is through responsive human hearts. We can wait for supernatural miracles, or we can roll up our sleeves with God and get to work.” –C. Robert Mesle
western god July 25, 2008
Posted by relsdork in God, christian, church, environment, nature, religion.Tags: christianity, environmentalism, God, nature, process theology, religion, ucc, united church of christ
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The dominant Western view of God has traditionally contributed to religious views of earthly stewardship at best, dominance at worst. The Genesis account has most often been interpreted as giving man dominance over women, animals, plants, and all other elements of the earth, with God acting as an external agent, outside of natural order and nature itself. Science and the progress of scientific understanding of our natural world has been positioned against God, as a fundamentally Other way of approaching the natural world and therefore contradictory to a truly religious approach to nature. Therefore, environmental ethics as they are presented by the scientific community are rejected as counter to God and a reliance on God’s wisdom. These views are not only dangerous to the planet, but bankrupt in their moral relevance. A truly ethical approach to the environment should be one of responsibility, connection, and mutual reliance.
i am fresh July 4, 2008
Posted by relsdork in christian, religion.Tags: brian swimme, environmentalism, process theology, the universe, thomas berry
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“The universe comes to us, each being and each moment announcing its thrilling news: I am fresh. To understand the universe you must understand me.”
–Thomas Berry and Brian Swimme, The Universe Story
