Remembering Eden

This chapter examines ecological affect—grief, anger, guilt—as Christian responses to environmental damage, from species extinction to urban pollution. It frames these emotions as records of breached communion among humans, creation and God, rejecting nostalgia while drawing on Eden’s epistemic role. Analysing activist and advocate voices, it tracks blame and rage towards systemic injustice, considers repentance amid structural sin, surveys ambivalence over dominion and co-creation and explores reinterpretations of stewardship. Responses tend to resist dominion and prefer stewardship. The chapter asks how creaturely creativity participates in divine life and concludes that lament can be theologically creative and resources activism oriented to repairing communion.