Between God & green : how evangelicals are cultivating a middle ground on climate change /
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| Author / Creator: | Wilkinson, Katharine K. (Katharine Keeble), 1983- |
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| Imprint: | New York : Oxford University Press, c2012. |
| Description: | xviii, 234 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8854540 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- An Alternative Voice
- Contested Terms
- A New Story
- 1. Chronicling Evangelical Climate Care
- Undulating Activity
- Evangelical Ecotheology
- From Theology to Activism
- Warming Up
- Inescapably Embedded
- 2. Beginning with the Word
- Bearing Witness
- Confronting the Evidence
- A Matter of Faith
- Multifaceted Solutions
- From Language to Action
- 3. Advancing Climate Care in Word and Deed
- A Net Cast
- Advocates on the Ground
- Theological Mortar
- Green in Spirit
- 4. Negotiating Climate Cares Opposition
- Conservative Backlash
- Leadership Shifts
- Breaking Away, Building Anew
- Harkening Back, Moving Forward
- Beyond Leadership
- 5. Engaging People in the Pews
- Sharing the Good News?
- Scientific Skepticism
- Competing Interests
- Political Divides
- Constricting Scale and Structure
- The Elusive Grass Roots
- 6. Sowing Seeds of a Movement
- Growing Fissures
- Promise or Peril?
- Spaces of Agreement
- Lingering Questions
- Conclusion
- Appendices
- A. "On the Care of Creation: An Evangelical Declaration on the Care of Creation" (1994)
- B. "Oxford Declaration on Global Warming" (2002)
- C. "Sandy Cove Covenant and Invitation" (2004)
- D. An Excerpt from "For the Health of the Nation: An Evangelical Call to Civic Responsibility" (2004)
- E. "Climate Change: An Evangelical Call to Action" (2006)
- F. "An Urgent Call to Action: Scientists and Evangelicals Unite to Protect Creation" (2007)
- G. "Principles for Federal Policy on Climate Change" (2007)
- H. "A Southern Baptist Declaration on the Environment and Climate Change" (2008)
- I. "Vineyard Churches: Seven-Year Plan for American Evangelicalism" (2009)
- J. Key Figures and Affiliations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index