St. Francis of Assisi as an Exemplar Par Excellence for a God-centred Care of Creation

Author(s)	Mr. Richard Wanyeki Ndirangu
Country	Kenya
Abstract	This article seeks to explore the place of the individual in caring for God’s creation in light of St. Francis of Assisi. We live in a society that highly conscious of the individual. The same individual has a responsibility to take care of the creation in response to God who mandated him to steward it from the beginning. In the Biblical account of creation, we hear that Adam was created as an individual and mandated to take care of the garden as an individual. This article is inspired by the late Pope Francis’ Encyclical letter Laudato si’ and Pope Leo XIV’s Decree of the Apostolic Penitentiary on the occasion of the Eighth Centenary of the death of Saint Francis of Assisi, by which a special Jubilee Year is proclaimed, with associated Plenary Indulgences. The two pontificates acknowledge the role of St. Francis in the doctrine of stewardship.
Keywords	Environment, Stewardship, Individual Responsibility, Creation, Faith.
Field	Sociology > Philosophy / Psychology / Religion
Published In	Volume 17, Issue 2, April-June 2026
Published On	2026-06-24
DOI	https://doi.org/10.71097/IJSAT.v17.i2.11307

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