ABSTRACT
This essay makes a modest attempt toward a value-shaped theological motivation for creation care. Common theological arguments for creation care reason from a consequentialist ethic or a variation of divine command theory. This essay focuses instead on a value-laden theological motivation for creation care that stems from our experience of the inherent value of creation exceeding deontological and utilitarian concerns. Borrowing resources from French phenomenological philosophers, Jean-Luc Marion and Emmanuel Levinas, in concert with other continental philosophers of religion, the essay reasons that a more robust theological motivation for creation care stems from the experience of identifying the value of creation as intrinsically connected to God himself.
