Eco-Spirituality within an Inclusive Creation: A Nature- Based Spiritual Paradigm Shift

The serious ecological crisis is creating concerns among thinkers and theologians, pushing them to address the issues from their own perspectives. The world today is in the grip of terrorising Covid-19 pandemic with the reality and anguish of death. Beyond the present pandemic there are more deaths on our planet for a thousand other reasons than the Coronavirus. The prospect of a probable slower but a more certain end of humanity at some distant time is not denied. The danger associated with the environmental destruction and deterioration has aroused a deep collective fear the world over. This perspective provokes no lesser impact on the collective psyche. Yet, modernity has systematically denied the constant imminence of death and destruction of the world. We can only reasonably hope for a collective awareness of the changes needed and decisive action taken by all stakeholders. It calls for a profound conversion of the ‘ways of life’. Christianity has to play a crucial role in translating into the concrete life those decisive actions. The author argues that we need to live more consciously and impact the nature that has a slap on human greed. A nature- based eco-spirituality as a progressive spiritual science of th