The Travail of Nature

<p><i>The Travail of Nature</i> shows that the theological tradition in the West is neither ecologically bankrupt as some of its popular and scholarly critics have maintained nor replete with immediately accessible albeit long-forgotten ecological riches hidden everywhere in its deeper vaults as some contemporary Christians who are profoundly troubled by the environmental crisis and other related concerns might wistfully hope to find. This is why it is appropriate to speak of the ambiguous ecological promises of Christian theology.</p>