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Christianity, Wilderness and Wildlife: The Original Desert Solitaire - Hardcover

 
9781589660533: Christianity, Wilderness and Wildlife: The Original Desert Solitaire
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Bratton's book is a ground breaking analysis of the Christian roots of the modern environmental movement. She shows that far from being antagonistic to nature, Christian environmentalism emphasizes the goodness, even glory of God's earthly creation. She illustrates this in a variety of settings and through many individuals, including St Francis of Assisi.

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Susan Bratton is chair of the environmental studies department at Baylor University and author of Environmental Values in Christian Art.  
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Bratton (ecology, Univ. of Georgia) recounts stories from the book of Genesis to the Reformation movement of beneficent encounters with the wilderness or with wild animals in Christian tradition. She finds that important events frequently occur in the wilderness and that biblical writers believed that wild nature "informed humankind about the person of God, a Creator who takes a joy in all creation." After analyzing the traditional stories, Bratton addresses the questions of when, where, and how contemporary Christians should seek wilderness for divine encounter. Recommended especially for seminary and church libraries and for large academic and public libraries as well.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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