Analysis Of Sallie Mcfague s An Ecological Christology

Sallie McFague’s essay â€Å"An Ecological Christology,† asks if Christology can be ecological since it is the center aspect of Christianity. She talks about the fact that Christ should be reevaluated at every age since there were different factors influencing the times. The environmental crisis is a good example of the need to reinterpret Christ due to the influences behind modern times. Christology is then explained in six different categories: prophetic, wisdom, sacramental, eschatological, process and liberation. At the conclusion of her essay, she offers her own Christology that is a practice of loving nature. This practice would be hard to convert to but it will provide abundance that materialism never could. The central theme in McFague’s essay is asking if these six different categories can be united to create an ecological Christology. McFague begins her essay by stating that originally Christianity was not anthropocentric, but the age of the enlightenment made it so. This gave Lynn White a viable reason behind his argument in his famous essay. â€Å"What creation meant in the first or third or twelfth century cannot serve as an answer to the question, how can Christians act responsibly toward nature in the twenty-first century?† (McFague 334). This is true because if one were to look at the creation story as a whole, they would notice the parts that say how man cannot destroy nature because it will not be replaced. Instead, the development of technology lead this passage to