This is a book about "environment ethics" from a Christian perspective, although the author warns at the outset that the term "environment" is misleading if one understands it to refer only to a surrounding world separate from outselves. For, he says, the situation of the earth today shows that "the world around us is also within. We are an expression of it; it is an expression of us. We are made of it; we eat, we drink and breathe it... This is not so much environment as the holy mystery of creation."
Creatively interweaving insights from religion, ethics, natural science, economics and social analysis, Larry Rasmussen demostrates how the ecological predicament in which the world finds itself today reflects and reinforces a wide range of crisies that afflict contemporary society. Yet he also argues that, despite all the "bad news", there is still reason to hope - "a healing and sustaining power that runs deep in life itself" -.