A Climate of Hope: Church and Mission in a Warming World

Climate science experts tell us that climate change is happening now, and that urgent action is required to avoid a range of catastrophic impacts.

For many inside the church, the science is perceived as more controversial. It is also unclear for some – both inside and outside of the church – that Christianity has anything positive to say about the debate.

Dawson and Pope address these concerns, and show that the basics of climate change science are now very well established and that real concerns for our future are well grounded. They also show that a belief in a sovereign creator God is compatible with a belief in human-caused climate change, and that faith in God gives the church both a mandate for action and a powerful and necessary hope.

Dawson and Pope then go on to mount a critique of modern consumerist society, and the complicity of media, politics and the church in the lack of leadership on this issue.

Inspiring stories of engagement and hope from Australia and abroad are included to encourage readers that they are not alone on this crucial journey. Many of these stories highlight the fact that wonderful synergies exist between more traditional modes of mission and new adventures in caring for creation. This timely book presents a clear call for Christians and church communities to repent, to pray and to engage in a Christ-like way with climate change on theological, missiological and practical everyday levels.