God's Wounded World: American Evangelicals and the Challenge of Environmentalism
Although evangelicals and environmentalists at large still find themselves on opposing sides of an increasingly contentious issue, there is a counternarrative that has received little attention. Since the late 1970s, evangelical creation care advocates have worked relentlessly both to find a common cause with environmentalists and to convince fellow evangelicals to engage in environmental debate and action. In Gods Wounded World, Melanie Gish analyzes the evolution of evangelical environmental advocacy in the United States. Drawing on qualitative interviews, organizational documents, and other texts, her interdisciplinary approach focuses on the work of evangelical environmental organizations and the motivations of the individuals who created them. Gish positions creation care by placing mainstream environmentalism on one side and organized evangelical environmental skepticism on the other. The religiopolitical space evangelical environmental leaders have established "in-between but still within" is carefully explored, with close attention to larger historical context as well as to creation cares political opportunities and intraevangelical challenges. The nuanced portrait that emerges defies simple distinctions. Not only are creation care leaders wrestling with questions of environmental degradation and engagement, they also must grapple with what it means to be an evangelical living faithfully in both present-day America and the global community. As Gish reveals, evangelical advocates answers to these questions place moral responsibility and mediation above ideology and dogmatic certainty. Such a posture risks political irrelevance in our hyperpartisan and combative political culture, but if it succeeds it could transform the creation care movement into a powerful advocate for a more accommodating and holistically oriented evangelicalism.
yazar | Melanie Gish |
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Boyutlar ve boyutlar | 15.24 x 3.18 x 22.86 cm |
Tarafından yayınlandı | 15 Ekim 2020 |
18,9 x 0,3 x 24,6 cm 1 Ocak 2017 18,9 x 0,2 x 24,6 cm ROBERT H BORK WADE H MCCREE Kolektif 28 Ekim 2011 18,9 x 0,5 x 24,6 cm Mdpi AG 28 Şubat 2018 ERWIN N GRISWOLD 18,9 x 0,6 x 24,6 cm 15 x 0,5 x 22 cm 15 Ekim 2020 3 Ocak 2017 Additional Contributors 18,9 x 0,4 x 24,6 cm 30 Ekim 2011
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Sürüm ayrıntıları
yazar | Melanie Gish |
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isbn 10 | 1481311735 |
isbn 13 | 978-1481311731 |
Yayımcı | Baylor University Press |
Boyutlar ve boyutlar | 15.24 x 3.18 x 22.86 cm |
Tarafından yayınlandı God's Wounded World: American Evangelicals and the Challenge of Environmentalism | 15 Ekim 2020 |
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