Christianity and Environmental Ethics

Running Head : CHRISTIANITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS

Christianity And Environmental Ethics

July 8 , 201

Christianity And Environmental Ethics

Introduction

According to the Christian faith , in the beginning God created the Heavens and Earth . God later created Man and Woman in his own image blessed them and ed them to multiply and subdue the Earth . Over time , Humans in pursuit of a better life have degraded the Earth Increase in population has adversely strained Earths resources . After the demise of Christ , the Church embarked on Evangelization , aimed at preaching the Christian

doctrine to the whole world

The initial paragraphs of this will focus on Africa where the spread of Christianity though based on moral and spiritual enlightenment , brought about economic and technologic advances , the root of Earths Environmental crisis . Man , having dominated the entire Earth has the Ethical obligation to preserve the environment for future generations . This will discuss , Christian Evangelization Its Impact on the Environment

At the dawn of the 20th century Christian missionaries embarked on rapid evangelization of Africa then viewed as the `dark ' continent . Africa was rich in both flora and fauna . As a leading scholar once aptly put it - Missionary enterprise is so intimately related to the political movement on the one hand and to the commercial undertaking on the other that its history cannot be accurately traced without continued reference to both (Du Pleisis , 1929 . The Christian missions in Africa though sincere in their endeavors for spiritual nourishment introduced new farming methods and crops , all...