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Creation Care 101: Why the Earth Matters
~16 Hours
In Creation Care 101: Why the Earth Matters, you will learn how the Christian faith leads to environmental stewardship as a reflection of God’s character through biblical study, spiritual practices, and engagement with thought leaders.
3 instructors
About This Course
Why should the Earth matter to Christians? Because it matters deeply to God. In this Creation Care 101: Why the Earth Matters to God course, you will reflect on the theological vision that sees the Earth as God’s beloved creation and humanity as image-bearing cocreatures, called to participate in God's care for the world. Through biblical study, spiritual practices, and engagement with Christian voices, you will discover how our faith informs faithful environmental discipleship.
We will explore what it means to be human, formed from the soil and filled with God’s breath. Our identity as cocreatures and image-bearers calls us into reverent participation with creation.
We explore how God’s own character—especially the virtue of gentleness—exemplifies how we are to exercise care in our ancient relationship with creation.
This course will also include examples of small, local actions of biblical creation care, prompting you to explore how you can live out this responsibility in your unique context.
What You Will Learn:
- Identify the scriptural and theological foundations of creation care, highlighting how our identity as cocreators (part of creation) and image-bearers shapes a life of attentive participation in God’s care for creation.
- Explain how a relational and virtuous understanding of dominion invites humble participation in creation care.
- Evaluate Christian objections to creation care and develop theologically and ethically informed responses grounded in communion with God.
- Implement a sustainable, personal, and communal pattern of creation care that reflects the character of God, shaped by the biblical, theological, and ethical insights explored in this course.
Created in partnership with BioLogos and FULLER Equip.
- Theology & Biblical Studies
- Faith & Science
- New Course Releases
Introduction
1. Getting Started
Foundations
2. What It Means to Be Human
3. The Shepherd: God’s Character and Our Care
4. Sabbath, Soil, and the Ethics of Belonging
Participation and Dominion
5. Dominion as Relational Responsibility
6. Earth and Neighbor
Christian Objections and Theological Responses
7. Common Christian Objections to Creation Care
8. Theological and Biblical Responses
Enacting Participation
9. From the Garden to the City
10. Making All Things New
Conclusion
11. Next Steps
Your Instructor
BioLogos
BioLogos is an organization that invites the church and the world to see the harmony between science and biblical faith while presenting an evolutionary understanding of God’s creation.
Jim Stump
Vice President at BioLogos
Jim Stump is the Vice President at BioLogos and hosts the podcast, Language of God. Jim also writes and speaks on behalf of BioLogos. He has a PhD in philosophy and was formerly a professor and academic administrator. His earlier books include Four Views on Creation, Evolution, and Intelligent Design (Zondervan, 2017); Science and Christianity: An Introduction to the Issues (Blackwell, 2016); and How I Changed My Mind about Evolution (InterVarsity, 2016). Most recently he has published, The Sacred Chain: How Understanding Evolution Leads to Deeper Faith (HarperOne, 2024).
Erin Dufault-Hunter
PhD University of Southern California, MA Fuller Theological Seminary, AB Occidental College
Dr. Erin Dufault-Hunter, professor of ethics at Fuller Seminary since 2006, integrates narrative theory and social science in her work on conversion, embodiment, and sexuality. Her book, The Transformative Power of Faith, explores how faith communities foster transformation. She has written on topics including race, gender, technology, and sexual ethics, with pieces in journals and edited volumes such as Venus and Virtue and Love Human and Divine. Her forthcoming book, Sex, Shame, and Salvation, examines the role of the erotic in Christian life. She is active in her local church, Mountainside Communion, where she occasionally preaches and fosters conversations on virtue in daily life.
