ABSTRACT
There have been thoughtful and significant responses to the charge that the wanton exploitation of nature is rooted in the theology of creation articulated in Christian tradition and that the responsibility for the ecological crisis is to be laid at our door. Matthew Fox and others have charged that a single-minded emphasis on original sin and redemption to the neglect of original blessing and creation may contribute to the ecological crisis. Dieter Hessel, is the Director of The Ecumenical Program in Ecology, Justice and Faith and Co-Director of Theological Education to Meet the Environmental Crisis. Nature seems a hostile environment on the whole driving human beings to seek out and cling to God's right hand. Three elements will underscore the substantial relation between God and the whole of nature: the world's revelatory potential, God's providential activity in the world, and the anticipated restoration of all things.
