A few Christian thinkers have sought to reinterpret “dominion” as “stewardship,” suggesting that God entrusted humanity to care for his creation. But it remained a minority view, favored by environmentalists and animal protectionists, and Aquinas’s interpretation remained the prevailing Catholic doctrine until the late twentieth century.
少数基督教思想家试图将“主宰”重新解释为“管理”，认为上帝信任人类照看他的创造物。但这一观点仍是少数派，受到环保主义者和动物保护主义者的支持，而阿奎那的解释直到二十世纪末仍占据天主教思想主流。