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Ever since handing over the manuscript of John Stott on Creation Care<\/a> early last year, I\u2019ve been keeping an eye out for books on creation care and Christianity that tap in to the Bibles big story, rather than treating it like an isolated issue, rather than a key part of discipleship. I really like and widely recommend the Moo and Moo volume A Biblical Theology of Creation Care<\/em><\/a>, but it\u2019s this little book by Sandra Richter her that I\u2019ll probably be recommending to pastors and other interested people in the first instance. <\/span><\/p>\n At only a shade over 100 pages, it\u2019s not too big or intimidating. Richter is an Old Testament scholar, and she\u2019s also listened carefully to people from other disciplines, including activists and scientists. There are some sobering stories.This is a book that\u2019s rooted in the text of the Bible, God\u2018s word, but also take seriously what God\u2018s world is telling us. This is a readable, challenging, biblical in the best sense, and above all careful look at some of the big questions of how Christians as gods people are called to care for creation.<\/span><\/p>\n For example, Richter places human sin at the heart of the problem: “our current environmental crisis is not the result of need; it is the result of greed<\/em>“. She also locates the motivation for our engagement in this area as Christians in the bigger story of what God is doing in creation: “The ‘not yet’ of a restored creation demands an ‘already’ ethical commitment to that creation now among God’s people<\/em>“. And, ultimately, the\u00a0theo<\/em>logical emphasis is right and rooted in the Genesis narrrative, echoing a theme which runs through scripture: “God owns the land, and it is humanity’s privilege to live on it<\/em>“. Amen!<\/p>\n I really enjoyed reading this book. I\u2019ll certainly be heading off to read her longer book, the epic of Eden, as soon as I can get my hands on a copy. In the meantime I\u2019d heartily recommend this book to you if you\u2019re looking for a short, biblical framework for care of creation. Stewards of Eden is published by IVP Academic, and available at all good book shops on and off line.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ever since handing over the manuscript of John Stott on Creation Care early last year, I\u2019ve been keeping an eye out for books on creation care and Christianity that tap in to the Bibles big story, rather than treating it … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[87,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3626"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3626"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3648,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3626\/revisions\/3648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}