| Book review: Evocations of Grace: Writings on Ecology, Theology, and Ethics by Joseph Sittler. edited by Steven Bouma- Prediger, Peter Bakken, and Martin E. Marty |
de Koning, J. 2001.
PSCF 53(3):206-207. CELD ID 14986Abstract
It was a joy to read this book. The editors gathered ten essays, speeches, and lectures which Sittler produced between 1954 and 1975; Bakken wrote the Introduction, and Bouma-Prediger wrote the Conclusion. Bakken mentions Lynn White Jr.'s 1967 essay in which he states that Judaism and Christianity were the original cause of the degradation of nature because of their misunderstanding of Gen. 1:28. That verse instructs humankind to "have dominion" over nature which was interpreted to mean "develop as much as you can."
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