In this ecological commentary upon the Letter to the Hebrews Jeffrey S. Lamp makes use of the approaches developed in the relatively new field of Ecological Hermeneutics to shed light upon the connection of Hebrews with the Earth. Lamp uses a model of ‘suspicion-identification-retrieval’ in the light of ecojustice principles in his reading.Hebrews is frequently characterized as portraying a dualistic cosmology that contributes to a mindset that diminishes the material world, thus muting the voice of Earth. Conversely, the text clearly seeks to advance topics of interest to human beings. In this light Lamp uses the criterion of suspicion to identify points of anthropocentric focus. Lamp uses the criterion of identification to argue that the epistle provides a subversion of these anthropocentric biases, which in turn provides opportunities to identify with the Earth. The criterion of retrieval is then employed to draw upon a hermeneutical approach focused on how the bible shapes its readers into those who fulfill the soteriological aims of God for the world. The voice of the Earth is then found in how the subverted anthropocentric reading of Hebrews directs readers toward action

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