Daniel_Cheung
10-13-2009, 06:24 PM
Act local as well as national urges Archbishop
http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/2563
In a lecture today at Southwark Cathedral (sponsored by the Christian environmental group Operation Noah) Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, sets out a Christian vision of how people can respond to the looming environmental crisis.
Beginning with the story of Noah and the Flood, Dr Williams highlights the "burden of responsibility for what confronts us here and now as a serious crisis and challenge". Our relationship with the rest of creation is intimately bound up with our relationship with God. The Bible offers "an ethical perspective based on reverence for the whole of life". "To act so as to protect the future of the non-human world is both to accept a God-given responsibility and, appropriately, to honour the special dignity given to humanity itself." ...
http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/2563
In a lecture today at Southwark Cathedral (sponsored by the Christian environmental group Operation Noah) Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, sets out a Christian vision of how people can respond to the looming environmental crisis.
Beginning with the story of Noah and the Flood, Dr Williams highlights the "burden of responsibility for what confronts us here and now as a serious crisis and challenge". Our relationship with the rest of creation is intimately bound up with our relationship with God. The Bible offers "an ethical perspective based on reverence for the whole of life". "To act so as to protect the future of the non-human world is both to accept a God-given responsibility and, appropriately, to honour the special dignity given to humanity itself." ...