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Kevin M. Lowe, Baptized with the Soil: Christian Agrarians and the Crusade for Rural America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016), viii + 249, $ 74.00, ISBN 97801901249458.A standard narrative for Christian environmentalism goes something like this: in the late 1960’s, the historian of science, Lynn White Jr., wrote an influential article in which he blamed Christians for the current ecological crisis. He especially pointed to the scriptural command in Genesis 1 to “subdue and have dominion” over the earth and all its creatures, as the decisive proof that Christianity is the most anthropocentric and earth-destroying religion the world had ever seen. Having now been suitably shamed, Christians finally woke up, took stock of their destructive past (and a history of bad biblical interpretation), and began to take steps to be better stewards of creation.This narrative has had wide appeal. It provides a clear culprit and an easy target to blame. But it is also misleading and, in some of its details and assumptions, clearly mistaken. Is it really the case that scripture inspires and warrants rapacious exploitation of the world, and that it took a medieval historian to wake Christians up to the errors of their ways?Kevin Lowe’s Baptized with
Journal of Reformed Theology – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2017
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