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Laudato Si’ and the Rise of Green Thomism

LAUDATO SI’ (2015) is an extraordinary encyclical. Through it, the Holy Father teaches, in a manner not previously specified, a central thesis of the Christian faith: because everything is created by our loving Father, we inhabit an earth that we share with his creatures. Thus, the gift of this beautiful earth is not to be ignored or regretted; this world is, rather, the central setting in which the Christian life is to be attentively lived and joyfully pursued. The putative subject matter of Laudato Si’ is the ecological concerns that have emerged at the conclusion of the twentieth century as a result of the practical abuses consonant with industrialization and modern development. But Lauadato Si’ is much more than a meditation taking aim at environmental practices and policies. It is a magisterial call to recover creation itself and, in recovering creation, to discover the moral fabric that binds us to ourselves, each other, each creature, and the Creator. Indeed, there is scarcely an aspect of contemporary life that is not addressed in some fashion in the encyclical. Its breadth, however, does not suggest anything trivial. Instead, it affirms the foundational character of the discussion the Holy Father seeks to undertake.