This article argues that the biblical concept of deror (release) provides a coherent theological framework for addressing contemporary economic and ecological crises. Beginning with the Jubilee legislation in Leviticus 25 and its prophetic re-articulation in Isaiah 61, the study follows the canonical trajectory into Luke 4, where Jesus proclaims deror as the defining character of his mission. The article then considers how this theological grammar challenges prevailing models of debt, ownership and land use, suggesting that Jubilee is neither an ancient curiosity nor a purely spiritual metaphor but a practical ethic of socio-economic and ecological repair. By retrieving this tradition, the article proposes that deror offers a constructive paradigm for climate justice, grounded not in modern policy discourse but in the biblical vision of liberation, restoration and ‘release for the land’ itself.
Mark Edward Chard (Fri,) studied this question.