Reimagining Redemption

This chapter continues our examination of how Christian environmental activists construe salvation amid climate crisis. Analysing surveys and interviews, it maps ethical commitments-stewardship, repentance, justice and hope—while testing whether such action recentres the human. It traces the profusion of soteriological verbs—reconciling, healing-and explores tensions around stewardship, human power and imago Dei , including appeals to priesthood and to indigenous practices. The chapter analyses hope (eschatology, action, ‘secular’ futurity) and argues for a cosmic scope of redemption that implicates non-human creation. It concludes that stewardship remains flexible and, for some, tends towards prophetic, system-critical praxis, while yet requiring clearer accounts of God’s redeeming action and nature’s moral significance.