ABSTRACT
This chapter presents Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's thought in such a way as to show how love stands as the central and the synthesizing element of his Ecotheology of love. His ecotheology is one of using nature responsibly and of caring for the environment because it understands all things, including human beings, as integrally united, together, in Jesus Christ risen. In his theology, Jesus Christ risen is more present to creation through his creative love than creation is present to itself. Thomas Berry finds Teilhard's basic ideas, such as those of evolutionary development, progress, the cross in Christian life, and the importance of science and technology, 'aggressive'. As opposed to Teilhard, Berry asserts that the ecological norm is not the human but rather the well-being and integral functioning of the whole earth community. Berry wants a return to the spatial and contemplative way of perceiving the world, and a turning away from the Western time experience of reality.
