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 wreck 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.  With rising awareness of ecological preservation, recently theologians like Mark  Wallace argue for animism Christian with a biocentric approach that understands God being present in all earthly objects, such as animals, trees, and rocks . Scholars of Christian animism include Mark I. Wallace .
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. See also "Socio-politial impact" section below. With rising awareness of ecological preservation, recently theologians like Mark I. Wallace argue for animism Christian with a biocentric approach that understands God being present in all earthly objects, such as animals, trees, and rocks .
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. Scholars of Christian animism include Mark I. Wallace