Solidarity with Creation : uncovering the hidden foundations

Abstract

Declaration of Human Rights, fought tirelessly to reinstate the pre-political truth of this dignity throughout the West. However, aft er the fall of the Berlin Wall, in the face of a persistent materialism, his focus broadened to include a deeper consideration and stronger defence of the entire created order. Solidarity with creation speaks to the ontological covenant that undergirds the dignity of the human person and calls him or her to a temporal and eschatological responsibility for the created world that “waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God” (Rom 8:19). A deeper appreciation of and commitment to the metaphysical truths of reality implicit in solidarity with creation – participation, communion, and self-donation – are necessary for the health of our natural world as well as the health of our human communities and our democracies.