Nature and Creation in Laudato Si’: The Autonomy of Earthly Affairs Rightly Understood (Matthew A. Shadle)

In his 2015 encyclical Laudato Si’, Pope Francis proposes that we ought to look at the natural world in two distinct but complementary ways: as “nature” and as “creation.” As “nature,” we see the world “as a system which can be studied, understood and controlled.” As “creation,” we see it as “a gift from the

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