Posted on 05/07/2013 8:48:11 AM PDT by Olympiad Fisherman
R. Mark Musser is a Christian with a Master of Divinity degree from Oregon’s Western Seminary and several years’ experience as a missionary in Eastern Europe. He is currently a pastor in Olympia, Washington. Not only is Musser a Christian, he is given to a rather literalist interpretation of the Bible. Fortunately, this is a cross not all of us have to bear. Unfortunately, it saddles his Nazi Oaks with dozens of biblical passages, some spanning the better part of a page. Said passages will surely slip the book from many a reader’s hand, which is too bad because, aside from said passages, this 405-page, 1,334-footnote text easily passes as a piece of professional academic scholarship. More importantly, Musser definitely contributes something valuable to the conversation about environmentalism with his Pantheism versus Christianity thesis.
(Excerpt) Read more at ecofascism.com ...
It would be impossible to make a “pantheism versus Christianity” thesis without referring to God’s word — and anyone interested in such a thesis would not be deterred by those references.
Yes, of course. The Bible itself is one of the few ancient documents that heavily criticizes pantheism. Kay is an atheist, however, and so took issue with the Bible references - but he still gave a very good review of the book. He did not let it deter him too much. He survived the Bible passages and lived another day to tell about it!
I support The Cornwall Alliance:
“The Cornwall Alliance is a coalition of clergy, theologians, religious leaders, scientists, academics, and policy experts committed to bringing a balanced Biblical view of stewardship to the critical issues of environment and development. The Cornwall Alliance fully supports the principles espoused in the Cornwall Declaration on Environmental Stewardship, and is seeking to promote those principles in the discussion of various public policy issues including population and poverty, food, energy, water, endangered species, habitat, and other related topics.”
http://www.cornwallalliance.org/
Great!
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