Creation God and Humanity: Engaging the Mystery of Suffering within the Sacred Cosmos

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We live in a sacred yet unfinished world in crisis and this reality is relatively new; our evolutionary worldview only came to the forefront in the last few centuries but the phenomenon we call climate change has only become more common in the last several decades. Creation God and Humanity awakens believers to the sacred revelation to be discovered in our encounters with creation and constructs an ecological theological anthropology to highlight the interconnectivity among God creation and humanity. This new relational framework is not without deep roots in the Christian tradition. Classic figures such as St. Francis Hildegard of Bingen the Desert Mothers St. Thomas Aquinas St. Irenaeus and Maximus the Confessor all witness in various ways their theological anthropologies. An ecological theological anthropology that fosters a deep solidarity with creation holds great promise today especially for Christians who desire to describe interpret and respond to suffering faithfully and compassionately in a sacred evolving world.