A clergyman’s borrowed warning of ecological doom reminds me that theology can be flexible enough to fit many times and placesMy ears pricked up in the Church of England’s global warming debate when a clergyman in a brightly coloured shirt announced that the Earth would “vomit us out” because we had defiled it. People should say more of this kind of thing at synod. They should say more of this in nearly all wearisome meetings. Certainly,it is an arresting figure of ecological doom.The speaker, Richard Burridge, and the dean of Kings College London,went on to describe the form this vomiting out would take: “God says: ‘I will smash the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass: and your strength shall be spent in useless: for your land shall not yield her increase, or neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.”Continue reading...,
Source: theguardian.com