Creation and the Environment: An Anabaptist Perspective on a Sustainable World

305 Pages·2000·1.03 MB·English

by  Professor Calvin W. Redekop

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An Anabaptist Perspective
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Creation and the environment : an Anabaptist perspective on
a sustainable world /edited by Calvin Redekop.
p. cm. — (Center books in Anabaptist studies)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8018-6422-4 (alk. paper)—ISBN 0-8018-6423-2 (pbk. : alk. paper).
1. Human ecology—Religious aspects—Anabaptists. 2. Human ecology—
Religious aspects—Mennonites. I. Redekop, Calvin Wall, 1925–
II. Series.
BX4931.2C.74 2000
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A catalog record for this book is available from the British Library.
Engravings by Jan Luyken (1649–1712)
Frontispiece:In the Beginning ... Genesis 1:1–2. Part I:The Bountiful Garden and Adam and
Eve’s Disobedience ... Genesis 3:13. Part II:Noah Preserves All Living Things in the Ark ...
Genesis 7:1–5. Part III:Elijah Fed by the Ravens ... 1 Kings 17:6.
Part IV:The Tree ofLife . . . Revelation 22:2.
To the increasing numbers of persons of all traditions, including the
Anabaptists, who have committed and are committing themselves to
preserve the creation. May their tribe increase, as it must if
creation is to be preserved.

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Acknowledgments xi
Introduction xiii
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uman ctivities & heir lteration of the reation
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conomics, evelopment, and reation
James M. Harder and Karen Klassen Harder
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cience, echnology, and reation
Kenton K. Brubaker
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opulation ensity and a ustainable nvironment
Carl Keener and Calvin Redekop
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nabaptist/ ennonite ife & the nvironment
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od’s pirit and a heology for iving
David Kline
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ennonites, conomics, and the are of reation
Michael L. Yoder
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he ennonite olitical itness to the are of reation
Mel Schmidt