**5. Conclusions**

In this paper, I have covered some vast terrain. My hope is that, in using trauma theory as a lens to explore human responses to the climate crisis and considering the theological import of this for pastoral and practical theology, this paper can contribute to the ongoing work of re-imagining the discipline and the field from an earth-centered, decolonizing, trauma-informed perspective. As a means to invite more sustained conversation in the discipline and the field, I have presented interdisciplinary research on trauma and the climate crisis acknowledging its theological and spiritual dimensions. I have deconstructed how theological frameworks can manifest trauma reactive responses that reinforce anthropocentric, colonizing control/mastery. I have suggested avenues of potential fruitfulness by identifying theological sources, epistemological orientations and practices that enable us to perceive the sacred in the bodied materiality and interconnectivity of being. May we, as a discipline and a field, contribute to widening the window amidst the threat of climate crisis—being present with courage, compassion and equanimity.

**Funding:** This research received no external funding.

**Acknowledgments:** I am grateful to Emmanuel College of Victoria University for supporting my research leave wherein this research was completed.

**Conflicts of Interest:** The author declares no conflict of interest.
