How can Christianity change to become ecological?
We must first learn to appreciate that Christianity is not the fixed and unchangeable set of absolute truths – the fundamentals – which its staunchest defenders often claim it to be. If it were, there would be no point in talking about ecological Christianity, for Christianity could never be anything else than what it is. Now here we may see the value of ecumenical Christianity as a prior, and perhaps necessary, stage for the emergence of ecological Christianity. Prior to the rise of ecumenism Christianity existed not only in a great variety of forms but each Christian group was strongly convinced that it alone was the truest form of Christianity. What ecumenism did first of all was to deliver Christians from the evil of idolising their own form of Christianity and to appreciate the fact that Christianity is not a fixed and unchangeable thing. It is a growing, living tradition of spirituality which can assume many forms. Moreover, it has a history during which it has already changed an
