Environmental Stewardship

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Environmental Stewardship

Religious ethics Christianity Environmental science, engineering and technology

Author: J. Douma

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Language: English

Published by: Wipf and Stock

Published on: 17th March 2015

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 2 Mb

ISBN: 9781498206013


Introduction to Stewardship

If any single word in the Christian vocabulary captures our relationship to--and responsibility for--the environment, that word is stewardship. It is a word that brings into view the relationship between humanity and the natural world of water, land, animals, and fellow human beings.

Environmental Challenges and Christian Perspectives

Nevertheless, today, some people think Christianity, especially Calvinism, is largely responsible for many of our environmental problems. The language of exercising dominion, subduing the earth, creation mandate, and technological progress somehow suggests abuse, exploitation, and pollution.

Analyzing the Role of Christianity

But are these criticisms correct? In this book you will receive an honest and clearheaded analysis from a Christian perspective of our role as human beings in caring for the environment, along with careful explanation of important Bible passages and teachings relating to environmental stewardship.

Ethical and Moral Questions

What about humanity's relationship to the earth, to animals, to their own genetic capacities? What about genetic screening? Germline therapy? Eugenics? When do science and scientific experimentation cross the moral boundary line?

Conclusion and Moral Discussion

This primer will introduce you to this timely moral discussion, while placing before your eyes with honest detail both the damage resulting from our human interaction with the creation, and our personal duties toward the Creator of this earth.

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