Category Archives: Creation and Environment

Have we filled the Earth?

This is the next in our series critiquing Wayne Grudem’s book Politics according to the Bible. Today we’re looking at the second part of the chapter on the Environment, where Grudem does a stock-take of the planet’s resources. Before we look at this section, it’s worth noting that Grudem’s take on the economy (which was […]

Creation and Politics

With this post, I am now resuming the series critiquing Wayne Grudem’s book Politics According to the Bible. In case you’ve forgotten in the gap between posts, the book so far outlines a religious right view of politics. Today we are starting to look at the chapter on the Environment. Today we’re looking at the […]

Creation and Environment 5: Restoration

This is the final instalment in our series on how a Christian doctrine of creation should prompt Christians to care for the environment. Part 1: Environment: Who Cares? Part 2: Environment: Who Owns it? Part 3: Environment: It is Good Part 4:Environment: The Ball’s in Our Court Today, we deal with two doctrines that are […]

Creation and Environment 4: The ball’s in our court

Continuing our series on reasons that Christians should care about the environment, today we deal with a bit of the Bible that has sometimes been misinterpreted to justify environmental destruction, but which actually means that we have a responsibility to look after the environment. But before we begin, here’s a list of links to the […]

Creation and Environment 3: It is Good

Continuing our series on reasons Christians should care about the environment. Part 1: Environment: Who Cares? Part 2: Environment: Who Owns it? One thing that the Bible teaches again and again about creation is that it is good. God said that every part of it was good when He was creating it in Genesis chapter […]

Who owns the environment?

This post continues the series I started last weekend about the core principles that should lead Christians to care about the environment. The question of how the universe came into being should have major implications for how we approach it. What we think of our place in the universe is vital to our understanding of […]

The Environment: Who Cares?

There is a lot said and written about protecting the environment. However, very little of it addresses the vitally important issue of why we should care. Whilst arguments like the phenomenal cost of not taking action to prevent climate change are important to bring up in public policy debates, they aren’t very effective at changing […]