An Ecumenical Theology of Justice for and within Creation: A Commentary on the Faith and Order Text Cultivate and Care

In 2020, the Commission on Faith and Order of the World Council of Churches (WCC) published Cultivate and Care: An Ecumenical Theology of Justice for and within Creation. This article offers an introduction to Cultivate and Care, highlighting its central themes and aspects, placing it in the context of two related Faith and Order documents, and evaluating its special contributions. The article also looks at the longer trajectory of theological themes that have informed the work of the Faith and Order Commission. Cultivate and Care was developed in conjunction with theological resources for the WCC's Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace and, in that sense, it is a statement "on the way" to the hope for transformation within the horizon of the ultimate reign of God.