https://pneumareview.com/creation-care-as-discipleship/ Journal of Ministry Resources and Theology for Pentecostal and Charismatic Ministries & Leaders Wed, 06 Jun 2018 18:30:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 https://pneumareview.com/creation-care-as-discipleship/#comment-35936 Thu, 28 Apr 2016 01:30:18 +0000 http://pneumareview.com/?p=11331#comment-35936 Dr. Olena,
I don’t think there is any debate about the need to care for the environment. The question is whether environmental care is to be done directly or through the mediation of our treatment of people. Scripture discusses our treatment of people. In fact, God judges the land where moral evil prevails. One need only consider biblical prohibition of divorce. Divorce, not typically seen as an environmental issue, is absolutely one because now resources are consumed by two families rather than one. I would suggest that evangelical emphasis on creation care is actually a distraction from our real mission. If we take care of that mission, we will by default take care of the other.
Stephen M. Vantassel Tutor of Theology. King’s Evangelical Divinity School. Author of Dominion over Wildlife? An Environmental-Theology of Human-Wildlife Relations (Wipf and Stock 2009)

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