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Review

Connect is series of short booklets that encourage people to think biblically about contemporary issues. They don’t attempt to provide all the answers, instead they open up the subject, introduce what the Bible has to say and get you thinking about the issues.

Thinking biblically about Climate Change does exactly what it says – it helps you think biblically about climate change! I thought this might be ‘yet another book telling us to live in a more environmentally friendly way’ – but it wasn’t! I found that is was fresh, insightful, challenging (but not preachy) and really got me thinking. This Connect booklet provides scientific data alongside biblical reflections and poses many thought-provoking questions. For example,

• Has God, in his covenant absolved us of all responsibility for guarding the earth against environmental disaster? Or should the knowledge that God has made his covenant with the earth, as well as with his people, heighten our concern for, and commitment to, the environment?
• Is the extinction of some species the regrettable but inevitable outcome of human beings obeying the creation command to ‘Be fruitful and increase in number’ (Genesis 1:28)?
• Can we say that climate change is acceptable when brought about by activities that are the means to the end of glorifying God?
• Is it possible that efforts to reduce and reverse climate change are misguided and constitute the storing up of treasure on earth rather than in heaven? Or should the promise of a new earth spur us to a new level of creation care?

Got you thinking? If so, go www.scriptureunion.org.uk/connect to purchase your copy – you can even save trees by downloading a PDF version of the booklet!

Contents

Introduction

1) Creation and Climate Change

2) Covenant People and Climate Change

3) Christ and Climate Change

4) Christ, Christians and Climate Change

Climate Change and Discipleship