In Pope Francis's 2015 encyclical on the environment, Laudato Si', he writes that 'The entire material universe speaks of God’s love, his boundless affection for us. Soil, water, mountains: everything is, as it were, a caress of God.'

How can art help us to rediscover our relationship with creation, so that we begin to cherish anew the capacity of nature to speak to us of God's incarnate and creative love? We consider our changing relationship to the natural world through art, and ask how we might rediscover a spirituality of beauty, resistance and hope through reflection on creation as God's great unfolding work of art.

Tina Beattie is Professor Emerita of Catholic Studies at the University of Roehampton in London. She has written extensively on sacramental theology and art, and she is now researching for a book on Pope Francis's environmental theology. In addition to her academic research and writing, Tina publishes fiction and contributes to the media on issues of faith and culture, including Radio 4's Thought for the Day.

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