Pursuing fullness of life through harmony with nature: Towards an African response to environmental destruction and climate change in Southern Africa

Like the rest of developed world, African nations are now subject to consumerist tendencies global economic architecture and activities, which excessively exploit natural resources for profits at centre what this article describes as ‘disharmony between nature humanity’. The exploitative requires healing restoration it leads towards unpredictable destructive weather patterns in relationships human activity environment have created feedback mechanisms that govern presence, distribution abundance species assemblages. Disharmony is employed describe lead patterns. consequences include climate change disasters such floods, drought environmental pollution, been severely experienced Southern Africa recently. This provides a qualitative literature review on recent religious ecumenical responses crisis draws notions ‘cultural landscapes’ ‘ecotheology’ highlight an relationship, characterised by disharmony relationship humanity nature. illustration demonstrates how concept unity ‘self entire Kosmos ’ worldview presents potentially constructive theology ecology. Amongst other recommendations, proposed order restore harmony attain fullness life – oikodome with healing, reconciliation, liberation should be extended relations or interactions all God’s creation. Contribution: represents contextual systematic reflection challenges facing context within paradigm intersection philosophy, studies, social sciences, humanities sciences generates interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary transdisciplinary contested discourse.