As lover, God is not only compassionate, but also passionate about social justice. God as lover is passionate about social justice with a simple reason that its opposite, systemic injustice, is the single greatest source of unnecessary human social misery, of unnecessary human suffering in history. Social justice is the way our well-being is attained in this world. Indeed, God as lover is “in love” not only with us as human beings, but even with the nonhuman world, with the whole of creation. Thus both a passion for justice and a passion for the environment flow out of imaging God as lover.
