More autumnal today - sun is shining, but it's become chilly. Today's poem: Season by Wole Soyinka

I'll rummage around our hard drives!

Same idea in Patriarch Bartholomew

Kallistos also uses Buber elsewhere when talking about animal rights and stewardship which might also serve as a hook into this topic

Finally... some extended reading from Kallistos Ware brill.com/display/book...

Compare Buber ... I- thou . I-it and how the I is different relational. How does true person emerge? etc

2 Augustine (Privation Theory of Evil): Evil doesn’t exist as a created thing but is the absence or privation of good. When we call something evil, we refer to the lack of goodness. Compare to Buber

Explore Augustine two proposals 1 (Augustine's Free Will Defence): God created a good world, but humans used free will to create evil during the Fall. Natural evils result from human sin disrupting the order of creation.

I can't see reading there ... but I'm sure there will be relevant passages Augustine and Buber.

Introduce Augustine’s concept of creatio ex nihilo and its implications for human reliance on God. Compare it with Buber’s emphasis on the I-Thou relationship and its personal dimension, let them consider how these ideas affect the way Christians view themselves and their life’s purpose