Reviews for Custodians of the land

The average rating for Custodians of the land based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-01-06 00:00:00 Matthew Porter Published in 1995, Fowler's monograph is primarily an intellectual history of the growth of environmentalism within American Protestantism from 1970-1990. He describes the influence of creation and process theology (as well as ecofeminism) on Christian environmentalism and outlines the political agenda of this same group. Fairly well-written and thoughtful. However, a book like this could never be written today. It was far, far too general. Any attempt to discuss American Protestantism broadly conceived (that includes fundamentalism, mainline denominations, and evangelicals) on an issue like this is complete folly. (If he was comparing and contrasting I would understand, but to pretend that there is any kind of Protestant identity or synthesis of thought as a whole is a waste of time.) His conclusions of what made up the Protestant environmental agenda are strikingly different than the evangelical agenda. I was impatient with his efforts to somehow connect End Times theology with process theology - they really couldn't be more different, and I found the attempt unproductive. The book was also broad in the sense that it did not include enough/any specific examples to support his arguments about the political and social justice agenda of green Protestants. He described many theological ideas at length (none of which ever had much influence on fundamentalists or evangelicals), but did not connect these ideas very clearly to the work of Protestants on the ground, other than mentioning a few committees from the World/National Council of Churches. Obviously outdated and not a very helpful discussion of religious environmentalism, but a decent and clear introduction to various progressive theologies.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-04-17 00:00:00 ynqoycs KHVWleMivwHhbrmpSE The one sentence review I just said to Joy was, "We tried to do good, but we had no idea what the fuck we were doing." She said that pretty much sums up the personal training field as well. Maybe that is an appropriate one-sentence review for humanity as a whole.