Healing the Rift? Christians and Ecology
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A further implication of the doctrine of creation from nothing is that all of God’s creatures are intimately connected to one another in an echo of the primordial coinherence of the Trinitarian persons. Since all creation is centered in God, all finite things, despite their enormous differences in size, position, quality, or metaphysical status, are linked together as ontological siblings. When Francis of Assisi spoke of ‘brother sun and sister moon,’ he was using language not only poetically evocative but metaphysically precise. – Robert Barron [1]
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