ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book first reiterate briefly how some recurring challenges put to a Christian theology of nature. Resources from Christian tradition as well as conversations with feminist and process thought and the dialogue with theology and science have aided the effort to articulate a Christian theology of nature. The three themes in Christian tradition includes: the desacralization of nature, anthropocentrism, and devaluation of matter in relation to spirit. The fuller history of theological reflection on the concept of imago Dei is not reducible to anthropocentrism pure and simple focusing on the attributes that set the human being above and apart from nature. Cosmic Christology tradition is a prospect for deepened insights into the God-world relation. Sittler added to the cosmic Christology conversation an insight that Protestant Christianity has particularly constrained grace, making it captive to second article and soteriological concerns.
