AFRICAN AND CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY OF ENVIRONMENT AS A MODEL FOR THE CONTROL OF GLOBAL WARMING

Ifiok: Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 4:84-96 (2018)
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Abstract

The problem of global warming and its implications on the continuous existence of the world are alarming. Hence, the phenomenon has attracted a lot of responses from different people including scholars, journalists and religious leaders. While researches on possible solutions to the menace of global warming continue, the contribution of this paper is that a combination of traditional African attitude to nature and Christian theology of environment can be used as a model for the control of global warming. Important elements in the two traditions include the idea of relationship between God, human and nature and the eschatological views of the two traditions. The paper concludes that the combination of these views will help to check human attitude to nature and unbridled craze for material wealth which are the major causes of global warming.

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