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Green theology and Deep Ecology
Bishop, Steve
Bishop, Steve
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"Christianity has often been a scapegoat for the environmental crisis. The most influential proponent of this view is the much quoted Lynn White, Jr.1 In a lecture given on 26 December 1966 at the Washington meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), he put forward the thesis that the Judaeo-Christian view of the physical creation paved the way for the science and technology that created the environmental crisis. (This thesis has been adequately refuted elsewhere.2) Along the way he makes the following statements about the Christian view of the creation:3 (i) it established a dualism of humanity and nature; (ii) it is anthropocentric: no item in the physical creation has any purpose save to serve humanity’s purpose; (iii) humanity is not simply part of nature; (iv) it insisted that it is God’s will that humanity exploit nature for its own ends."
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1991
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