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The Greening of Protestant Thought traces the increasing influence of environmentalism on American Protestantism since the first Earth Day, which took place in 1970. Robert Booth Fowler explores the extent to which ecological concerns permeate Protestant thought and examines contemporary controversies within and between mainline and fundamentalist Protestantism over the Bibles teachings about the environment.Fowler explores the historical roots of environmentalism in Protestant thought, including debates over Gods relationship to nature and the significance of the current environmental crisis for the history of Christianity. Although he argues that mainline Protestantism is becoming increasingly green, he also examines the theological basis for many fundamentalists hostility toward the environmental movement. In addition, Fowler considers Protestantisms policy agendas for environmental change, as well as the impact on mainline Protestant thinking of modern eco-theologies, process and creation theologies, and ecofeminism.
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The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill & London
title
:
The Greening of Protestant Thought
author
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Fowler, Robert Booth.
publisher
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University of North Carolina Press
isbn10 | asin
:
0807822051
print isbn13
:
9780807822050
ebook isbn13
:
9780807861530
language
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English
subject
Human ecology--Religious aspects--Protestant churches--History of doctrines--20th century, Protestant churches--United States--Doctrines--History--20th century, United States--Church history--20th century.
publication date
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1995
lcc
:
BT695.5.F68 1995eb
ddc
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261.8/362
subject
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Human ecology--Religious aspects--Protestant churches--History of doctrines--20th century, Protestant churches--United States--Doctrines--History--20th century, United States--Church history--20th century.
1995 The University of North Carolina Press
All rights reserved
Manufactured in the United States of America
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.
Robert Booth Fowler is Hawkins Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Fowler, Robert Booth, 1940 The greening of Protestant thought / by Robert Booth Fowler. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8078-2205-1 (alk. paper).ISBN 0-8078-4517-5 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Human ecologyReligious aspectsProtestant churchesHistory of doctrines20th century.2. Protestant churchesUnited StatesDoctrinesHistory20th century. 3. United StatesChurch history20th century. I. Title.
BT695.5.F681995
261.8'362dc20
94-48277
CIP
99 98 97 96 955 4 3 2 1
Page v
CONTENTS
Preface
vii
Introduction
1
Chapter One
Protestants Face the Environment
1
Chapter Two
The Bible as (Contested) Foundation
28
Chapter Three
Dissent and Protestant Fundamentalism
45
Chapter Four
The Argument over Christianity
58
Chapter Five
Stewardship
76
Chapter Six
Toward Eco-Theology
91
Chapter Seven
Process Environmentalism
108
Chapter Eight
The Ecofeminist Challenge
123
Chapter Nine
The Protestant Environmentalist Agenda
141
Chapter Ten
Politics and the Means to Change
159
Conclusion
175
Notes
181
Bibliography
207
Scripture Index
237
General Index
238
Page vii
PREFACE
This book is about Protestant environmentalism in the United States in the twenty years after the first Earth Day, in 1970. It examines the extent to which ecological concerns permeate the elites, institutions, and general membership of Protestantism, while paying due attention to the varieties and divisions in Protestantism. It mainly addresses Protestant thought and how Protestant theologians and activists have formulated versions of a green Protestantism that addresses the environmental crisis and fends off numerous critics from within the larger environmental movement. It makes a special effort to look at Protestantism and the environment with a consciousness of Protestantism's many sides, including the world of Protestant fundamentalism. It also pays close attention to the setting of Protestant environmentalism, its relationship to science, its connections with broader social and political thought, and how it compares with the earlier Protestant civil rights movement.
Chapter 1 addresses the status of environmentalism within Protestantism today, and Chapter 2 covers the history of green Protestantism. Chapters 3 and 4 explore the differing interpretations within Protestantism of the meaning of the Bible in regard to the creation (the environment). Because the Bible is the central foundation for Protestantism, how it is interpreted in regard to creation is, predictably, both crucial and controversial. Chapter 5 describes and analyzes the intense debate both within Protestantism and between Protestant thinkers and their secular critics over the Christian environmental record.
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