A CHRISTIAN BASIS FOR ENVIRONMENTALISM

作者：Smith Blaine; Brannan Daniel K^*

来源：European Journal of Science and Theology, 2013, 9(5): 167-177.

• climate change
• evangelicalism
• David Bookless
• Sallie McFague
• Lynn White

Human action is contributing to a worldwide decrease in biodiversity and a decrease in the health of the world's ecosystems. Members of the Christian religion are poised to become frontrunners in the fight to restore the world's ecosystems and to pioneer responsible ecological practices. This paper explores the effect that humans have had on the environment and proposes reasons why Christians should engage in solving the most challenging ecological issues of the modern era. Our role as God's Image bearers in caring for Creation is reconceived in light of McFague's remythologization of the Creation model and by consideration of the Bebbington quadrilateral and Bookless' assimilation of it into evangelicalism which informs the Christian tradition of Creation care.

• 出版日期2013-10