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E 196 The Book of Job and Environmental Ethics: The Message from the Whirlwind (2020)
£2.77Christianity has often been accused of being ‘anthropocentric,’ of putting humanity at the centre of its perspective—thus endorsing human exploitation of the environment.
Yet God’s words in the Book of Job offer a quite different perspective—one where creation is centred on God, and humanity is comparatively marginal. It is a theocentric vision which Christians need to recapture.