Many influential people believe that the biblical doctrine of dominion is behind climate change and the extinction of species, and a myriad of other regrettable things.11 But the problem with this view is that dominion is a fact—human beings simply have it. It’s God’s doing. We can’t abdicate. Human beings possess power over all the creatures of the world. I suppose you could say we have a Ring of Power—whether we want it or not. But dominion isn’t arbitrary power, at least not originally. In the Christian faith human dominion is subject to God’s dominion. And it is informed by God’s Law—his
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