PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Nancy Watkins Denig
TI  - “On Values” Revisited: A Judeo-Christian Theology of Man and Nature
AID  - 10.3368/lj.4.2.96
DP  - 1985 Sep 21
TA  - Landscape Journal
PG  - 96--105
VI  - 4
IP  - 2
4099  - http://lj.uwpress.org/content/4/2/96.short
4100  - http://lj.uwpress.org/content/4/2/96.full
AB  - This article counters widely publicized opinions expressed by lan McHarg and others alleging that Judeo-Christian values have fostered Western man's unprecedented environmental exploitation. History suggests that such exploitation is neither unique nor religious in inception. Biblical exegesis reveals a theology of man and nature which is, in fact, antithetical to exploitation. Judeo-Christian theology holds, instead, that man is called into a sacred relationship with nature founded upon loving dominion, discerning stewardship, and covenantal co-existence, and that nature as creation is sacred, bearing the image of God. Since man has free will, exploitation is a possible consequence of wrong choice, not of Judeo-Christianity itself.