All God's Creatures: A Theology of Creation

Daniel P. Horan

All God's Creatures: A Theology of Creation
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Country
United States
Published
7 July 2020
Pages
266
ISBN
9781978701557

All God’s Creatures: A Theology of Creation

Daniel P. Horan

The predominant stewardship model of creation is the result of an intentional effort to correct approaches that reinforce human sovereignty and the resulting environmental degradation. However, as All God’s Creatures argues, the stewardship model actually does not offer a correction but rather reinscribes many of the very same pitfalls. After close analysis of the stewardship model, this book identifies scriptural, theological, and philosophical sources to support the adoption of a community of creation paradigm. Drawing on postcolonial theory, this book proposes the concept of planetarity as a framework for conceiving the relationship between human and nonhuman creation, and the Creator, in a new way. This theoretical framework is grounded by a retrieval of the medieval Franciscan theological and philosophical tradition. The result is what can be called a postcolonial Franciscan theology of creation imagined in terms of planetarity, providing a constructive and nonanthropocentric response to the need for a new conceptualization of the doctrine of creation.

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