Redeemer. And rooted in such a soil, we can begin to speak of care of the earth as an inseparable part of righteousness. For an earthkeeping ethic cannot simply be invented, then propped up by pragmatically useful religions like much of the emerging Gaian ‘spirituality’. It must rather be one of the fruits of a life rooted (like that of the righteous person described in Psalm 1) in the life-giving streams of the law of the Lord, the law which we encounter in Jesus, the Word made flesh, in whom ‘all
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