Abstract
The purpose of these two books is to present a new Christian perspective on ecology and environmental concerns, to counteract what has been usually only a slight involvement of Christians in these issues. This is a critical area of concern for Christians and one that needs to be much more extensively considered and discussed. At least since Lynn White, Jr., proposed the thesis in his 1967 paper, "The Historical Roots of our Ecologic Crisis," that indifference to and degradation of the environment could be traced directly to the Judeo-Christian view of the superiority of mankind over nature, thereby granting human beings the right to exploit nature as they pleased, Christians have been sensitive to this charge and sought to refute it. Already in 1970 Francis Schaeffer responded in Pollution and the Death of Man: The Christian View of Ecology, arguing that the Christian response to the abuse of the creation mandate was not to move to the other extreme of redivinizing and resacralizing nature, but rather both to affirm the oneness of human beings at the level of creaturehood with the rest of creation, and at the same time to emphasize the role of human beings as special creations of God to be God's stewards of the rest of creation for Him.