An Earth-Careful Way of Life: Christian Stewardship and the Environmental Crisis [Paperback]

Lionel Basney (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1994

Lionel Basney roams supermarkets and superhighways to expose the spiritual roots of the environmental crisis.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

Lionel Basney was a wonderful poet and an original, careful thinker. Most of all he was a deeply Christian man who lived with integrity and put his ideas into practice. His premature death is a great loss to the Christian community, but it is wonderful that his words will live on in this fine book. This is a work that addresses the environmental crisis with a clear and distinctive Christian voice." —C. Stephen Evans

Calvin College "An Earth-Careful Way of Life is a lament, a manifesto, and a prayer. Lionel Basney laments, in eloquent detail, what we have lost through our carelessness of the earth: our communities, our soil, even our culture itself. But the book is also a manifesto. Basney moves beyond showing what we have lost to what could be recovered, both in farms and in cities, through a delicate kind of care-fullness. Here he calls us back to our basic human task, both practical and profound: to be gardeners. And at this point, where the book is closest to anger, it is closest also to prayer. Basney sees clearly that to be fully human is to be in proper relationship with the Creator—and with the rest of Creation. Most important, this complex cry of a book is rooted (as a plant is rooted) in the soil of a particular place and experience. Christians in North America can not afford to ignore any part of this elegiac, angry, reverent book." —Loren Wilkinson Regent College --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

About the Author

Lionel Basney was professor of English at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, until his death in 1999. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 168 pages
• Publisher: Intervarsity Pr (May 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0830813225
• ISBN-13: 978-0830813223
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,714,571 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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