Climate Change and Its Effects: Theological Reflections

Todd A. Salzman; Michael G. Lawler

doi:10.25167/sth.5628

Published: 2025-01-11

Vol. 44 No. 2 (2024)

Climate Change and Its Effects: Theological Reflections

Todd Salzman

, Michael Lawler

Studia Teologiczno-Historyczne Śląska Opolskiego

Section: Articles

https://doi.org/10.25167/sth.5628

Abstract

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for his books on the dire threat of climate change, Harvard Professor of Biology, Edward Wilson, judges that “for the first time in history a conviction has developed among those who can actually think more than a decade ahead that we are playing a global end game”. In this essay, we seek to show that the global end game to which Wilson refers and which we will name ecological crisis demonstrate that humans and Nature are not separated, indeed cannot be separated, and that it is the human attempt to separate them that has generated the ecological crisis. We first lay out the details
of climate change and then offer some theological suggestions to alter the end game and reverse and heal climate change.

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Climat change, Conversion, Ecological crisis, Edward Wilson, Laudato si', Pope Francis

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Salzman, T. A., & Lawler , M. G. (2025). Climate Change and Its Effects: Theological Reflections. Studia Teologiczno-Historyczne Śląska Opolskiego, 44(2), 15–40. https://doi.org/10.25167/sth.5628

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