“The Stones Will Cry Out”: Entangled Climate Rage and More-than-Human Voices of Creation

In this article, I propose that eco-theology makes oddkin with the more-than-human voices of creation through an entangled eco-theology of climate rage. Drawing on, e.g. Audre Lorde’s intersectional rage and Donna Haraway’s entangled sympoiesis, I offer climate rage, in all its multitudes of multi-voiced and multi-faced complexity, as a tool to avoid anthropocentric epistemic injustice in eco-theology. The more-than-human voices of creation can, in this sense, be understood as wrathful witnesses of bodies put upon the gears of the machine of the climate crisis – a machine which I propose eco-theology rage against. By including these voices in the polyphonic choir of climate rage, this rage can, furthermore, be translated into action. Joining together with companion species and critters, the entangled eco-theology of climate rage proposed in this article, thus, meets several challenges facing eco-theology. As UN Secretary-General António Guterres once said, “now is the time to turn rage into action … Every voice can make a difference”. Even if human voices keep silent, the stones, and all the other entangled critters of creation, will cry out. I propose that eco-theology engages these wrathful voices instead of turning away from them.