At the end of the twentieth century we are coming to understand that the earth is vulnerable, that it is like a tiny garden in space, under threat on all sides. JESUS AND THE COSMOS is an attempt to think theologically about the ecological crisis we face in the light of the great Christian tradition. the worldview of a static

Our theological tradition has been shaped within universe. By contrast, we are told today that the universe began with a cosmic explosion called the Big Bang, that we live in an expanding universe, with galaxies rushing away from us at an enormous rate, that we human beings are part of an evolutionary movement on the earth, and that we are intimately linked with the health of delicately balanced life-systems on our planet.