ABSTRACT
This chapter offers a theological model of geoengineering, which starts from the fact that geoengineering proposals recommend ways for the human relationship with the climate to be defined through technological mediation. Implicit in all geoengineering proposals is that human technological interventions are not passive or independent of our understanding of the climate; instead, geoengineering is predicated on the possibility that technology can define and facilitate the human relationship with the global environment. How might theological reflection provide a way to understand this dynamic? Models are constructions theoretical, material, or otherwise that are purposely made to systematically investigate a domain or an object. Given these qualities, models are useful for a wide array of disciplines, not just the natural sciences and engineering. This is because all models are founded upon the hermeneutical structure of experience a structure that is particularly well studied in the social and human sciences.
