Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Christianity and the Environment
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to Christianity and the Environment
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Concepts
- Part II Histories
- 8 Environmental Perspectives in Ancient Greek Philosophy and Religion
- 9 Medieval Nature and the Environment
- 10 Natural Philosophy in Early Modernity
- 11 Protestantism, Environmentalism,and Limits to Growth
- 12 Romanticism, Transcendentalism, and Ecological Thought
- 13 Contemporary Religious Ecology
- Part III Engagements
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- References
11 - Protestantism, Environmentalism,and Limits to Growth
from Part II - Histories
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 July 2022
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Christianity and the Environment
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to Christianity and the Environment
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Concepts
- Part II Histories
- 8 Environmental Perspectives in Ancient Greek Philosophy and Religion
- 9 Medieval Nature and the Environment
- 10 Natural Philosophy in Early Modernity
- 11 Protestantism, Environmentalism,and Limits to Growth
- 12 Romanticism, Transcendentalism, and Ecological Thought
- 13 Contemporary Religious Ecology
- Part III Engagements
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- References
Summary
In the mid-1860s, as Britain enjoyed global power thanks to coal-fueled industrial capitalism and as American industrialization was poised to take off, George Perkins Marsh of Vermont in America and William Stanley Jevons from Liverpool in Britain published books that warned unsustainable use of natural resources threatened to impoverish future generations. Their Reformed Protestantism upbringing, descended from forebears’ Puritanism, had instilled in both Marsh and Jevons perspectives and values that informed their analyses and solutions. Since their publication, their books’ reputation has risen with concern for the environment and about limits to growth. They remain valuable and relevant today.
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