{"id":34241,"date":"2026-08-18T14:50:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T12:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/francescoeconomy.org\/caring-for-creation-together-when-stewardship-becomes-a-spiritual-practice\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T14:56:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T12:56:06","slug":"caring-for-creation-together-when-stewardship-becomes-a-spiritual-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francescoeconomy.org\/es\/caring-for-creation-together-when-stewardship-becomes-a-spiritual-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Caring for Creation Together: When Stewardship Becomes a Spiritual Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1248px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Caring for Creation Together:<br \/>\nWhen Stewardship Becomes a Spiritual Practice<\/b><\/h1>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\"><h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A summary of the study <em>\u00abTheotic Governance and the Ecumenical Administration of the Commons\u00bb<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-3\"><p style=\"text-align: right;\">by Alonso de Llanes<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-4\"><h3><b>The old problem of shared things<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Imagine a pasture open to everyone in a village. Each herder can graze as many animals as they like. For each one, adding another cow brings a clear personal gain, while the cost\u2014an overgrazed, ruined field\u2014is shared by all. If everyone follows that logic, the pasture collapses. This is the famous \u00abtragedy of the commons,\u00bb described by Garrett Hardin in 1968, and it has shaped how we think about everything from fisheries to the climate ever since.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hardin&#8217;s conclusion was bleak: left to themselves, people will exhaust whatever they share, so the only way out is to privatize the resource or hand it to the state to police. For decades, this assumption framed the debate. We are selfish by nature, the thinking went, and shared goods need a fence or a fine to survive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But the story turned out to be more hopeful. The political scientist Elinor Ostrom\u2014who later won a Nobel Prize\u2014spent years studying real communities around the world: irrigation networks in Spain, forests in Nepal, fishing grounds in the Philippines. She found that many of them managed their shared resources sustainably for generations, without privatization and without a distant authority forcing them to. They did it through their own agreements: clear limits, shared rules, ways of watching out for cheating, and a real say for everyone involved.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ostrom&#8217;s work was a breakthrough. Yet even she, and most of those who followed, tended to describe cooperation in a particular language\u2014the language of incentives, rules, and self-interest carefully balanced. What they spoke about less was something harder to measure: the inner life of a community. The beliefs, values, and shared sense of meaning that make people <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">want<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to care for something beyond themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:33.333333333333%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:5.76%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:5.76%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-image-element\" style=\"--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-1 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" title=\"eofsumschool2023\" src=\"https:\/\/francescoeconomy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/eofsumschool2023.jpeg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/francescoeconomy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/eofsumschool2023.jpeg\" alt class=\"lazyload img-responsive wp-image-34202\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27768%27%20height%3D%271024%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20768%201024%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27768%27%20height%3D%271024%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/francescoeconomy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/eofsumschool2023-200x267.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/francescoeconomy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/eofsumschool2023-400x533.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/francescoeconomy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/eofsumschool2023-600x800.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/francescoeconomy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/eofsumschool2023.jpeg 768w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-5\"><h6><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>Photo from the EoF Summer School 2023<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-2 fusion_builder_column_2_3 2_3 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:66.666666666667%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:2.88%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:2.88%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-6\"><h3><strong>A different question<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My study begins exactly there, in that quieter space. It asks a simple question with deep roots: what if the way a community cares for shared resources depends not only on the rules it sets, but on the kind of people it forms and the story it tells about its place in the world?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To explore this, I drew on a very old idea from the Christian tradition called <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">theosis<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, sometimes translated as \u00abdeification.\u00bb It sounds dramatic, but the core insight is gentle. Theosis describes the belief that human beings are made to participate in the life of God\u2014to grow, over a lifetime, into closer communion with the divine, with one another, and with the created world. The early Christian writers summarized it with a striking phrase: God became human so that humans might share in God&#8217;s life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What matters here is the picture of the human person this carries. In much of modern economics, the default human being is <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">homo economicus<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: a calculating individual who weighs costs and benefits and acts to maximize personal gain. The tradition of theosis suggests a different portrait. The theologian John Zizioulas put it memorably\u2014\u00bbbeing is communion.\u00bb On this view, a person is not first an isolated self who later chooses to relate to others, but a being who only becomes fully themselves <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">through<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> relationship. We are made for connection, not just transaction.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-3 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-7\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I call the framework that grows out of this idea <\/span><b>Theotic Governance<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: a way of understanding the care of shared resources that takes seriously the spiritual and relational formation of the communities doing the caring. Alongside <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">homo economicus<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, it proposes a companion figure\u2014<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">homo theoticus<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014a person whose actions are shaped not only by calculation but by communion, service, and a willingness to hold back for the sake of others.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Four pillars<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To make this concrete, the framework rests on four ideas drawn from the Christian tradition, each translated into a practical disposition:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Koinonia<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (communion): shared responsibility, where decisions about common resources are made together rather than by isolated individuals.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Agape<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (self-giving love): care and solidarity oriented toward the good of others, including the poor and future generations, even at a personal cost.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Diakonia<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (service): treating the care of creation as a form of service to one&#8217;s neighbor, especially the vulnerable.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Asceticism<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (self-restraint): a freely chosen sobriety\u2014consuming less, living more simply, respecting limits.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These are not abstract doctrines so much as habits of the heart that, over time, shape how a community sees its world.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>What I studied, and what I found<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To test whether these dispositions actually show up in practice, I examined real documents from the Laudato Si&#8217; Action Platform, a global initiative of the Vatican&#8217;s Dicastery for Integral Human Development that helps Catholic communities and partners take ecological action. The material came from 49 participants across 13 countries\u2014parishes, schools, religious congregations, universities, and families\u2014each of whom had submitted an environmental action plan together with a reflection on why they were doing it. From these, I drew 149 specific passages to analyze closely.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The point was not to count words or produce statistics, but to listen for patterns: how do these communities actually talk about caring for the earth?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The most common theme by far was <\/span><b>service<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Roughly a third of the passages framed ecological work as a form of care for neighbors\u2014environmental education, sustainable farming, clean-up campaigns, cleaner energy in church buildings\u2014often with special attention to people most exposed to environmental harm. Close behind came <\/span><b>love and solidarity<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, especially concern for the poor and for generations not yet born; many communities spoke of sustainability as an act of love toward people they would never meet. <\/span><b>Self-restraint<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> appeared too, in commitments to consume less, waste less, and live more simply\u2014described not as sacrifice for its own sake but as a kind of inner freedom. And <\/span><b>communion<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> showed up in how decisions were made: through shared discernment, meetings, and collective deliberation rather than top-down instruction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In short, these communities did not describe their environmental work as a technical problem to be solved or a rule to be obeyed. They described it as an expression of who they are and what they believe.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Why it matters<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Borrowing a term from the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, I describe this as a kind of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">habitus<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014a set of deep, almost instinctive dispositions that quietly guide how people act. What this study suggests is that in religious communities, this habitus is powerfully shaped by spiritual conviction, and that this, in turn, supports the very cooperation that sound resource management requires.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This does not replace Ostrom&#8217;s insights or render rules and institutions unnecessary. Good fences and fair agreements still matter. But it adds a missing layer. It suggests that whether shared resources flourish or fail may depend not only on how we design our institutions, but on the kind of people those institutions help us become.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In an age of ecological crisis, that is a quietly hopeful idea. The tragedy of the commons assumed the worst about human nature. This study offers evidence for something more generous: that communities formed by communion, service, love, and restraint can become, in a real sense, keepers of the world they share.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-4 fusion_builder_column_3_4 3_4 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:75%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:2.56%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:2.56%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-8\"><p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Alonso de Llanes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">2025-2026 EoF Academy Fellow<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-5 fusion_builder_column_1_4 1_4 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:25%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:7.68%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:7.68%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-image-element\" style=\"--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-2 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"907\" title=\"Alonso_de_Llanes\" src=\"https:\/\/francescoeconomy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Alonso_de_Llanes.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/francescoeconomy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Alonso_de_Llanes-1024x907.jpg\" alt class=\"lazyload img-responsive wp-image-29313\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%271134%27%20height%3D%271004%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%201134%201004%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%271134%27%20height%3D%271004%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/francescoeconomy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Alonso_de_Llanes-200x177.jpg 200w, https:\/\/francescoeconomy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Alonso_de_Llanes-400x354.jpg 400w, https:\/\/francescoeconomy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Alonso_de_Llanes-600x531.jpg 600w, https:\/\/francescoeconomy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Alonso_de_Llanes-800x708.jpg 800w, https:\/\/francescoeconomy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Alonso_de_Llanes.jpg 1134w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hardin&#8217;s conclusion was bleak: left to themselves, people will exhaust whatever they share, so the only way out is to privatize the resource or hand it to the state to police. 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