• A Mainline Protestant Response

In the New Testament we learn that Christ not only restores and reconciles our relationship to god, Christ also restores our right relationship to the creation of which we are a part. Our new life in Christ consists of a restored relationship to both God and creation. As people in the Body of Christ, we and all of creation move toward the fulfillment and wholeness intended for everything through Christ. We are not delivered from this world; nor are we simply assured of a greater spiritual reality lying beyond this world. Rather the bodily resurrection of Christ means that the power of sin and death is defeated, and the new creation is breaking forth in this world. (Reformed Church in America, “Care for the Earth: Theology and Practice.” [Link])