Reflections on COP26: - What Does Theology Have to Offer the Conversation around the Climate Crisis?

considers what we might learn from the indigenous theological traditions of the Ecuadorian Kichwa people, drawing on principles of relationality, common good, ‘enoughness’ and revelation to interrogate some of the mainstream assumptions of modern Western society – as well as noting the similarity between these themes and the wisdom of the Bible and the Christian moral tradition. [...] In chapter nine, Ian Christie considers the nature of the climate predicament and why it is so hard to face and act upon, and notes the scale of the political challenge ahead, particularly in the United States of America; he also points to political opportunities and breakthroughs. [...] Rather, beautiful invitation to look it needs to be understood as a back to the past and learn complex and historic issue, which is from what the modern deeply related to inequality but also strongly connected to colonisation world systematically and to the neo-colonial systems rejected: the wisdom that perpetuate the exploitation and the spirituality of of peoples and the environment. [...] Finally, the conception of nature as ‘subject’ of God’s revelation is also present in the biblical worldview, in Leviticus 25 when 35 Reflections on COP26 Yahweh commands the resting of the land during the Sabbath year; in the Psalms (19, 89); and even in Matthew 6, when Jesus points to it as a discipleship model and paradigm of the kingdom. [...] “No sky without the ocean, no land without the sea… no me without you,” 58 Realising connectedness: a new lens for looking at climate change according to one poet.3 To ensure the connectedness of the child to their motherland in the local tradition, the child’s umbilical cord is buried with the child’s totem plant to signify that the child’s identity is rooted in the land and that wherever they tr.