RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 “On Values” Revisited: A Judeo-Christian Theology of Man and Nature
JF Landscape Journal
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 96
OP 105
DO 10.3368/lj.4.2.96
VO 4
IS 2
A1 Denig, Nancy Watkins
YR 1985
UL http://lj.uwpress.org/content/4/2/96.abstract
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.