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Book SynopsisRedekop, Conrad Grebel College; Mel Schmidt; Dorothy Jean Weaver, Eastern Mennonite University; Michael Yoder, Northwestern College, Iowa.
Trade ReviewCreation and the Environment is a helpful, valuable contribution to the growing corpus of writing on Christianity and the environment. -- Lytton John Musselman Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith In any discussion of the environment of environmental responsibility, few elements are quite as complex and contentious as the relationship of religious belief to activities affecting the environment. Thus, it is difficult to have a useful discussion of the nature of appropriate human action towards the natural world without taking into account the extent to which several widespread views on the environment are undisputedly motivated by religious belief. Here Creation and the Environment fills a useful niche. -- Carol Medlicott Ethics, Place and the Environment A revealing and multi-disciplinary examination of one particular Christian perspective on the topic... one is left understanding the way in which a faith commitment can have specific consequences for the practical working out of a creation-caring lifestyle. -- Randolph Haluza-DeLay Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuse A rich collection of essays on a sustainable world based on Anabaptist insights. Each of the essays is important and contributes to a basic theology of nature, stewardship, population, personal behavior, and public action. I can't recommend this book too highly. -- John A. Lapp Provident Book Finder A rich and distinctive contribution to the growing literature on Christian eco-theology and environmental ethics. -- Anna Peterson Worldviews
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introductions
Part I. Human Activities & Their Alteration of the Creation
1. Economics, Development, and Creation
2. Science, Technology, and Creation
3. Population Density and a Sustainable Environment
Part II. Anabaptist/Mennonite Life & the Environment
4. God's Spirit and a Theology for Living
5. Mennonites, Economics, and the Care of Creation
6. The Mennonite Political Witness to the Care of Creation
Part III. Anabaptists' Theological & Historial Orientation
7. Creation, the Fall, and Humanity's Role in the Ecosystem
8. The New Testament and the Environment: Toward a Christology for the Cosmos
9. Pacifism, Nonviolence, and the Peaceful Reign of God
10. An Anabaptist Mennonite Theology of Creation
11. The Earth Is a Song Made Visible
Part IV. The Challenge to Take Care of the Earth
12. Toward an Anabaptist/Mennonite Environmental Ethic
13. The Environmental Challenge before Us
Appendix A. A Letter to Congress
Appendix B. Stewards in God's Creation
Notes
Biblography
Contributors
Index
