Date/Time
Date(s) - February 25, 2026
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Location
Catholic Pacific College
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The scope of Christian witness has always been holistic. Christianity holds a message for the person and the cosmos, for history and for nature.
Early Christian figures like the desert monks, Irenaeus, Augustine and the Cappadocian Fathers each contributed important interpretive tools for recognizing the truth of a world that is ecological. Sharing the root word for ecology, ‘oikos’, Christians not only understand our natural world as our home but also as a world of wisdom and God’s plan in the ‘oikonomia’ of salvation.
Contemporary Christians are not responding to the ecological crisis as observers to a secular narrative but to a crisis of faith that has arisen in a rebellion towards the limits of the created order. This rebellion is critiqued by Christian writers like Wendell Berry and Paul Kingsnorth.