Ask the Beasts: Darwin and the God of Love

For millennia plant and animal species have received little sustained attention as subjects of Christian theology and ethics in their own right.

Focused on the human dilemma of sin and redemptive grace, theology has considered the doctrine of creation to be mainly an overture to the main drama of human bein&ggrave;s relationship to God. What value does the natural world have within the framework of religious belief?

The crisis of biodiversity in our day, when species are going extinct at more...