Christianity has a historic concern for nature and the natural world. At the same time, ecological concerns operate in tension with anthropocentric values, such as the Biblical notion of human dominion over the Earth.(Gen 1: 28) A broad range of Christian institutions are engaged in the environmental movement and contemporary environmental concerns   ."Pope Francis Calls for Amazon Conservation" URL
Status of nature in Christianity has been hotly debated, especially since historian Lynn White published the now classic "The historical roots of present-day ecologic crisis" in 1967 in which he blame Christianity for the modern environmental crisis which he concludes is largely due to the dominance of Christian world-view in the west which is exploitative of nature in unsustainable manner.Gary Steiner, 2004, Descartes as a Moral Thinker: Christianity, Technology, Nihilism , Humanity Books, 219. He asserts that Judeo-Christian are anticological, hostile towards nature, imposed a break between human and nature with attitude to exploit the nature in unsustainable way where people stopped thinking of themselves as part of the nature. This exploitative attitude combined with the new technology and industrial revolution wrecked havoc on the ecology, the colonial forestry is a prime example of this destruction of ecology and native faiths.Gregory Allen Barton, 2002, Empire Forestry and the Origins of Environmentalism, Page 165. Also see also "Burden of guilt" section above. In recent times, Pope Francis called for conservation of ecology of amazon ."Pope Francis Calls for Amazon Conservation" URL
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Christianity has a historic concern for nature and the natural world. At the same time, ecological concerns operate in tension with anthropocentric values, such as the Biblical notion of human dominion over the Earth.(Gen 1: 28) A broad range of Christian institutions are engaged in
Status of nature in Christianity has been hotly debated, especially since historian Lynn White published the now classic "The historical roots of present-day ecologic crisis" in 1967 in which he blame Christianity for
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environmental movement and contemporary environmental concerns
modern environmental crisis which he concludes is largely due to the dominance of Christian world-view in the west which is exploitative of nature in unsustainable manner.Gary Steiner, 2004, Descartes as a Moral Thinker: Christianity, Technology, Nihilism
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, Humanity Books, 219. He asserts that Judeo-Christian are anticological, hostile towards nature, imposed a break between human and nature with attitude to exploit the nature in unsustainable way where people stopped thinking of themselves as part of the nature. This exploitative attitude combined with the new technology and industrial revolution wrecked havoc on the ecology, the colonial forestry is a prime example of this destruction of ecology and native faiths.Gregory Allen Barton, 2002, Empire Forestry and the Origins of Environmentalism, Page 165. Also see also "Burden of guilt" section above.
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In recent times, Pope Francis called for conservation of ecology of amazon