On the eve of the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference, the Diakonia Council of Churches invites you to the launch of: Climate Change: A Challenge to the Churches in South Africa with guest speakers Prof Ernst Conradie and Bishop Michael Vorster.
The book can be downloaded from the South African Council of Churches website (save paper?). Read an excerpt from Eddie Makue’s preface to the book below:
From Climate Change: A Challenge to the Churches in South Africa
It is with gratitude, excitement and expectation that we make this book available. Throughout the decades of our existence, the South African Council of Churches, in a responsible and pro-active manner, strive to
provide theological leadership regarding the immense challenges that contemporary societies face. The publication of this book bears testimony to our efforts to live faithfully to this calling.
A Christian response entails that we, as followers of Christ, act priestly, prophetically and also in a royalservant manner. This document indeed offers a Christian – and therefore a priestly, prophetic and royalservant – response to the immense challenges of climate change that we have to deal with.
In order to live in a Christian way in the world we need to live with priestly love and pay attention to what is going on around us. The famous North American theologian, H. Richard Niebuhr, argues that the first step in faithful Christian living is to pay attention to what is going on around us. Climate change requires our attention. We need to pay attention. As those who adhere to an ethos of justice, peace and the integrity of creation, we pay attention to the plight of our natural environment as well. So, priestly Christian living is to pay attention and to show compassion. This affectionate and caring attention is an expression of love.
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