For the Life of the World

Robin Gibbons is a Melkite-Catholic priest and Ecumenical Canon of Christ Church Cathedral (Oxford). He also serves as the Director of Studies in Theology and Religion in the University of Oxford’s Department for Continuing Education and specializes in Eastern Christianity and the tradition of Christian-provided charity.

“With Laudato Si’, Pope Francis placed environmental theology firmly within Catholic social teaching, not only as duty and virtue but because of the ordering of creation and each human’s place in society on the Earth out of which we were made. Robin Gibbons shows that this is not just an extrapolation from theology applied to the politics and scientific anxieties of the early twenty-first century but integral to the tradition of both East and West, Catholic and Orthodox. With light from the East as a Melkite Greek Catholic priest, he sets the Church at the forefront of stewardship ‘for the life of the world’, presenting the spiritual case for its salvation and preservation and thus its future growth towards perfection rather than loss.”—Father Mark Woodruff, Chairman of Society of St John Chrysostom

• Acknowledgements – Introduction – Towards a Spirituality of Environment – Liturgical Insights – From the Eucharist—Aspects of the Divine Liturgy – Perspectives on the Environment—The Icon, Doors of Perception – Monastic Signposts – Conclusion – Index.