Based on a constructive reading of Scripture, the apostolic and patristic traditions and deeply rooted in the sacramental experience and spiritual ethos of the Orthodox Church, John Zizioulas offers a timely anthropological and cosmological perspective of human beings as "priests of creation" in addressing the current ecological crisis.
Given the critical and urgent character of the global crisis and by adopting a clear line of argumentation, Zizioulas describes a vision based on a compassionate and incarnational conception of the human beings as liturgical beings, offering creation to God for the life of the world. He encourages the need for deeper interaction with modern science, from which theology stands to gain an appreciation of the interconnection of every aspect of materiality and life with humankind. The result is an articulate and promising vision that inspires a new ethos, or way of life, to overcome our alienation from the rest of creation.

John Zizioulas, Metropolitan of Pergamon, was previously Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Glasgow and Visiting Professor at King's College London, UK.
John Chryssavgis serves as theological advisor to the Ecumenical Patriarch on environmental issues, USA.
Nikolaos Asproulis is deputy director at Volos Academy of Theological Studies, Greece.

Foreword, Archbishop Rowan Williams
Introduction
Toward an Ecological Ethos: Theological Principles and Philosophical Presuppositions, John Chryssavgis and Nikolaos Asproulis
Chapter 1: The Eucharistic Vision of the World
Chapter 2: Preserving God's Creation: Historical and Theological Perspectives
Chapter 3: Creation Theology: Patristic Perspectives
Chapter 4: Priests of Creation
Chapter 5: Laudato Si': Ecumenical and Spiritual Perspectives
Chapter 6: The Book of Revelation and the Natural Environment
Chapter 7: Environment and Justice: A Theological Approach
Chapter 8: Ecological Asceticism: a Cultural Revolution
Chapter 9: Orthodoxy and the Ecological Crisis - A Theological Approach
Chapter 10: Religion and Science - An Ethical Approach
Chapter 11: Religion, Science, and the Environment
Chapter 12: Ethics versus Ethos: An Orthodox Approach to the Relationship between Ecology and Ethics
Chapter 13: Towards an Environmental Ethic
Chapter 14: Proprietors or Priests of Creation?
Chapter 15: Humanity and Nature: Learning from the Indigenous
Chapter 16: A Theological Approach to the Ecological Problem
Chapter 17: Human Beings and Animals: Monastic and Artistic Perspectives
Chapter 18: Communion and Communication
Chapter 19: St. Paul and the ecological problem
Conclusion: From Here to Where
Bibliography
Index