Redeeming Creation: The Biblical Basis for Environmental Stewardship - Softcover

Van Dyke, Fred H.; Mahan, David C.; Sheldon, Joseph K.; Brand, Raymond H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0830818723 ISBN 13: 9780830818723

Publisher: IVP Academic, 1996

Synopsis

"Preeeeep." The sound of the peepers, tiny frogs an inch or two long, penetrated the dusk. Beneath the jack pines at the edge of a small pond in the northern Michigan woods, the males were calling their mates. A professor and a group of ecology students sat speechless as closer and closer, louder and louder, more and more peepers joined in chorus. There was just light enough to see them, crawling up a bracken fern to find a singing perch, filling their throats with air like tiny balloons about to burst and then giving forth at close range an ear-splitting 'preeeeep.; . . . Now we were immersed in the peepers' lives, not ours. And when the concert ended and the peepers had gone away, we laughed together for the sheer joy and power of life displayed for a moment in the grand efforts of one tiny creature to be fruitful and multiply." Combining compelling stories with both biblical and scientific investigation, Redeeming Creation addresses the ecological crisis we face today.

• population explosion
• rain forests stripped bare
• destruction of animal habitat
• the death of entire species
• depletion of the ozone layer
• global warming

The authors, four biologists and teachers, believe that we can face these dilemmas with hope. Moving beyond a mere survey of the planet's ills, they bring Scripture into fruitful dialogue with current scientific findings and commitments. They both inspire and inform our individual and corporate response to God's creation.

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From the Back Cover

This sensitive and eloquent study by four Christian biologists addresses the ecological crises we face at the turn of the millennium: population explosion, rain forests stripped bare, destruction of animal habitats, the death of entire species, depletion of the ozone layer, global warming. In the light of Scripture and the presence of God, we can face these crises with hope. More than an investigation of the environmental crisis, this book brings Scripture into fruitful dialogue with current scientific findings and commitments. What emerges is a clarion call to a biblically informed individual and corporate response to our creation.

About the Author

Fred H. Van Dyke received his Ph.D. in environmental and forest biology from the State University of New York/Syracuse. A former wildlife research biologist with the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks, Van Dyke is currently professor of biology and director of the Environmental Studies Program at Wheaton College. He is the author of a textbook on conservation biology, Conservation Biology: Foundations, Concepts, Applications.

About this edition

• Publisher: IVP Academic
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0830818723
• ISBN 13: 9780830818723
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 214