"Theologies that encourage humans to dominate and master the Earth have played a deplorable role in degrading God's creation."
Misreading "dominion" is a significant factor in our current ecological crisis. See Ellen Davis: bibleodyssey.org/passages/relat…
(yes there is a however)
citing Robin Wall Kimmerer's call to develop new liturgies as almost an authorization of this work
and
saying that what we need is "not just new wine, but new wineskins"
concerns me.
Where, as @NatiPassow says, God places the human (adam) made from the earth (adamah) "to work it and to protect it."
and God asks us simply to show a little restraint.
Not to be extractive.
Where there is a tree of life bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month.
And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations. (Rev. 22)
is the one through whom all things were made (John 1)
and in whom all things cohere (Colossians 1)
and what that means is
We don't need new authorization for that. It's as old as Holy Scripture.
It's been God's call to us - a call we've failed at - for a very long time.
Right now, when I celebrate holy communion, it's with bread baked from heirloom Turkey Red wheat planted in community at @Plainsong_Farm.
It's with wine made with grapes gleaned by my Lutheran friends and given to my church.
the oldest there is! as old as Maundy Thursday!
and yet it is a new liturgy.
There is nothing that teaches resurrection like holding grains of wheat in your hand, burying them in earth and watching them rise again.
American Christians, our work is to fall into the earth and die.
To die to greed and to power and yes, to extractivism.