How Should We Treat Creation | Christopher Wright

Lecture Title - The Goodness, the Glory, and the Goal of Creation

Much Christian thinking about creation and environmental issues focuses only on the creation narratives and the concept of stewardship that they generate. We need to look further at the Bible’s insistence that creation itself constitutes a part of the glory of God, such that our actions in and with creation either enhance or diminish God’s glory. And we also need to build an eschatological dimension into our environmental theology and practice. What does the Bible say about the destiny of creation in the purposes of God, and how should that affect our attitudes and actions within it now?

Christopher J. H. Wright (PhD University of Cambridge) is International Ministries Director of Langham Partnership International. He is author of Old Testament Ethics for the People of God (IVP Academic, 2004) and The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible’s Grand Narrative (IVP Academic, 2006).

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