In this critique of the extent, origins and causes of the environmental crisis, it is argued that Christianity has lost the biblical awareness of the inter-connectedness of all life. It tries to show how Christian theologians and believers might recover a more ecologically friendly belief system and life style. The author sets out a corrective to secular approaches to environmental ethics, including utilitarian individualism, animal rights theories and deep ecology. He contends that neither the stewardship tradition, nor the panentheist or process ecological theologies have successfully mobilized the Christian tradition. He demonstrates that the Hebrew Bible contains an ecological message which is close to the traditions of many primal and indigenous peoples and which provides an important corrective to instrumental attitudes to nature in much modern philosophy and Christian ethics.
