Offering: Treasuring the Creation
Ben Quash
Creation is being changed by the effects of humans. The church is a part of that change. How does the church react?
Issues. The environment is inevitably really defined in terms of a human environment. Is it really?
- The tension between freedom and determinism. We believe we are free to act, but also realize there are forces at work which are not in our control. That tension affects the environment.
- The dominance of management models and the lure of “sustainability”.
- Immanentism.
Liturgical Offering. How the liturgy of the offertory is linked to creation and its inherent goodness.