Soteriological Turnings

This chapter develops a soteriological overview for Christian responses to climate change, triangulated by sanctification, redemption and deification. It retrieves creation’s sacramentality, proposes ‘transcendental immanence’ to ground activism in God’s creative agency and revisits resurrection and eschatology to defend personal hope that opens onto cosmic transformation. It reframes imago Dei as environmentalist vocation through an ‘analogy of formation’—creation’s pedagogy shaping human creatureliness—while critiquing pantheism and exploring limited compatibilities with animism. The chapter concludes that Anthropocene pressures spur theological creativity: God meets Christians in and by creation, damage to communion provokes lament and critique, and Christians are called to stewardly and prophetic action.