The word “dominion” (Hebrew radah) has been misused to mean “practicing domination over” or ravaging creation for industrial purposes. But, as Lisa notes and theologian Ellen Davis affirms, a more accurate understanding of radah is “loving stewardship.” Proper stewardship is based on love of the land and its peoples. Proper stewardship is part of our poetic responsibility to Creation. I connect this Hebrew word radah to the Greek word poietes (maker), as I detail in the following chapters. One aspect of our stewardship is to become poets of Creation, to sing alongside the Creator over
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