OMG, the warnings I will receive about the heresy of expanding the idea of salvation so far as this book “threatens” to do! It will distort the simple meaning! It will detract me from the Good News of the Gospel, which I should be preaching “instead” of all this “political” Climate science mumbo-jumbo!

“How can we imagine the gracious, compassionate love of God for the created world? “The whole creation is groaning in labor pains until now,” we read in the New Testament. Creation waits to be set free from its bondage to decay in order to share in the glorious freedom of the children of God, who are themselves groaning while waiting in hope for the redemption of their bodies (Rom 8: 18– 25). Many theologians have written of human redemption. But how in our day can we understand cosmic redemption? At a time of advancing ecological devastation, what would it mean to rediscover this biblical sense of the natural world groaning, hoping, waiting for liberation? What would it mean for the churches’ understanding, practice, and prayer to open the core Christian belief in salvation to include all created beings?”

Johnson, Elizabeth A. (2018-02-20). Creation and the Cross: The Mercy of God for a Planet in Peril (Kindle Locations 114-120). Orbis Books. Kindle Edition.