Creation and the Environment
An Anabaptist Perspective on a Sustainable World
Creation and the Environment
An Anabaptist Perspective on a Sustainable World
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Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 9780801864223
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 18/12/2000
Width: 15.2 cm
Height: 22.9 cm
Recent years have seen a shift in the belief that a religious world-view, specifically a Christian one, precludes a commitment to environmentalism. Whether as "stewards of God's creation" or champions of "environmental justice", church members have increasingly found that a strong pro-ecology stand on environmental issues is an integral component of their faith. But not all Christian denominations are latecomers to the issue of environmentalism. In this text, supported and produced by the Mennonite Church, Calvin Redekop and his co-authors explain the unique environmental position of the Anabaptists. In rural Amish and Mennonite communities, the authors explain, the environment - especially the land - is considered part of the Kingdom that God will establish on Earth. Creation and human history are thus seen as completely interdependent.
Acknowledgments
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
