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Creation & the environment : an Anabaptist perspective on a sustainable world / edited by Calvin Redekop

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Creation and the environment
Published
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xix, 283 pages).
Additional Creators
Redekop, Calvin Wall, 1925-
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Contents
Economics, development, and creation / Karen Klassen Harder and James Harder -- Science, technology, and creation / Kenton Brubaker -- Population density and a sustainable environment / Carl Keener and Calvin Redekop -- God's spirit and a theology for living / David Kline -- Mennonites, economics, and the care of creation / Michael L. Yoder -- The Mennonite political witness to the care of creation / Mel Schmidt -- Creation, the fall, and humanity's role in the ecosystem / Theodore Hiebert -- The New Testament and the environment : toward a christology for the cosmos / Dorothy Jean Weaver -- Pacificism, nonviolence, and the peaceful reign of God / Walter Klaassen -- An Anabaptist/Mennonite theology of creation / Thomas Finger -- The earth is a song made visible / Lawrence Hart -- The challenge to take care of the earth -- Toward an Anabaptist/Mennonite environmental ethic / Heather Ackley Bean -- The environmental challenge before us / Calvin Redekop.
Summary
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 Creation and the Environment Calvin W. Redekop and his co-authors explain the unique environmental position of the Anabaptists, in particular the Mennonites. After a brief survey of the major forces contributing to the word's present ecological crisis, Creation and the Environment explores the uniquely Anabaptist view of our relationship to what they see as the created order. In rural Amish and Mennonite communities, they explain, the environment - especially the "land"--Is considered part of the Kingdom God plans to establish on earth. In this view, the creation is part of the divine order, with the redemption of humankind inextricably linked to the redemption and restoration of the material world. The well-being a purpose of creation and human history are thus seen as completely interdependent. Contributors: Heather Ackley Bean, Claremont Graduate School; Kenton Brubaker, Eastern Mennonite University; Thomas Finger, Claremont Graduate School; Karen Klassen Harder, Bethel College, Kansas; James Harder, Bethel College, Kansas; Lawrence Hart, Cheyenne Cultural Center, Clinton, Oklahoma; Theodore Hiebert, McCormick Theological Seminary; Karl Keener, Pennsylvania State University; Walter Klaassen, Conrad Grebel College; David Kline, Holmes County, Ohio; Calvin W. Redekop, Conrad Grebel College; Mel Schmidt; Dorothy Jean Weaver, Eastern Mennonite University; Michael Yoder, Northwestern College, Iowa
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ISBN
0801876729 (electronic bk.)
9780801876721 (electronic bk.)
0801864224 (alk. paper)
9780801864223 (alk. paper)
0801864232 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780801864230 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-267) and index.
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