ABSTRACT
This essay builds on a related essay entitled “Christianity and the environment in (South) Africa: Four dominant approaches” that was published in a volume on public theology in 2007.1 In that essay I identified especially four approaches that are typically followed by Christians with regard to earthkeeping in South Africa. I noted that, since literature and examples were drawn from other African countries, the analysis may well apply to such countries as well. I also noted that the analysis may be applicable to religious traditions other than Christianity but, given the rather scant evidence in terms of published material from within the African context, this would be difficult to establish. Since I was asked to contribute an essay in this volume on a closely related
theme, I will first outline the same four approaches, update the survey of the literature in the process, and then raise the question as to whether this analysis may indeed apply beyond the narrow focus on Christianity in South Africa.
