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John Stott on Creation Care
Discover John Stott's writings on creation care, brought together for the first time in this definitive collection for the global church. Compiled by R. J. Sam Berry and Laura Yoder, this brilliant anthology demonstrates both Stott's passion for the environment and its place in Christian discipleship.
Showcasing his unique way of explaining the Bible simply and clearly, John Stott on Creation Care traces Stott's own process of coming to embrace creation care as a vital part of the Christian life - and in turn shows us how creation care must have an integral place in our own discipleship.
Commentary by noted scientist R. J. (Sam) Berry connects Stott's writings together and illuminates how his wisdom still speaks to us today. Alongside reflections from others that Stott inspired and discipled, John Stott on Creation Care is the perfect resource for every Christian looking to understand biblical teaching on the environment and how creation care should form part of their discipleship. It is also an ideal biblical and theological resource for those involved in creation care ministry.
Published as part of the John Stott Centenary celebrations, proceeds from John Stott on Creation Care will go to A Rocha International, a charity that carries community-based conservation projects in response to biodiversity loss around the world.
John Stott viewed creation care as an inevitable implication of the biblical message, and as a grounding for Christian engagement in environmental commitments. This collection will give you a deeper, more thorough understanding of his writings and how his views developed, and will leave you motivated and inspired to look again at your discipleship and how you approach creation care.
Showcasing his unique way of explaining the Bible simply and clearly, John Stott on Creation Care traces Stott's own process of coming to embrace creation care as a vital part of the Christian life - and in turn shows us how creation care must have an integral place in our own discipleship.
Commentary by noted scientist R. J. (Sam) Berry connects Stott's writings together and illuminates how his wisdom still speaks to us today. Alongside reflections from others that Stott inspired and discipled, John Stott on Creation Care is the perfect resource for every Christian looking to understand biblical teaching on the environment and how creation care should form part of their discipleship. It is also an ideal biblical and theological resource for those involved in creation care ministry.
Published as part of the John Stott Centenary celebrations, proceeds from John Stott on Creation Care will go to A Rocha International, a charity that carries community-based conservation projects in response to biodiversity loss around the world.
John Stott viewed creation care as an inevitable implication of the biblical message, and as a grounding for Christian engagement in environmental commitments. This collection will give you a deeper, more thorough understanding of his writings and how his views developed, and will leave you motivated and inspired to look again at your discipleship and how you approach creation care.
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344 pages, Hardcover
Published October 21, 2021
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November 8, 2023
This work is an anthology of Stott’s work on creation care, that is aggregated and commentated on for the reader.
I think the aggregation and anthologization is done incredibly well. The aggregator does well to pull a wide verity of materiel from a number of different types of sources.
Content wise I have to comment on Stott’s content and the aggregators comments on Stott’s work.
Stott is Reformed, theologically conservative, and orthodox in many of his views. And yet, he makes the firm statement that a disciple of Christ must be attuned to Creation Care. I think Stott’s argument is important for modern evangelicals. I have been wrestling with what does it mean to be Reformed and Evangelical and yet to care about conservation and creation. John Frame once said that modern evangelicalism has rejected natural theology, and I might argue that with it, modern evangelicalism has rejected a theology of nature as well. Stott stands as an example of how evangelicals can continue to engage in Creation Care today.
As far as the aggregators comments go, I found them to be widely unhelpful and somewhat demeaning. The aggregator feels the necessity to remind you that they’re theologically liberal often. They also feel the necessity to comment on Stott’s theology almost as an apologetic for their school of thought. At one point the aggregator is almost arguing with Stott’s theology of the fall. There is a place to debate theology, but as an addendum to a dead man’s work is not the place to do it. I can’t think of a single instance where I thought the aggregators thoughts or opinions were insightful, added to the argument, or were otherwise helpful.
Read this work and read it outside!
I think the aggregation and anthologization is done incredibly well. The aggregator does well to pull a wide verity of materiel from a number of different types of sources.
Content wise I have to comment on Stott’s content and the aggregators comments on Stott’s work.
Stott is Reformed, theologically conservative, and orthodox in many of his views. And yet, he makes the firm statement that a disciple of Christ must be attuned to Creation Care. I think Stott’s argument is important for modern evangelicals. I have been wrestling with what does it mean to be Reformed and Evangelical and yet to care about conservation and creation. John Frame once said that modern evangelicalism has rejected natural theology, and I might argue that with it, modern evangelicalism has rejected a theology of nature as well. Stott stands as an example of how evangelicals can continue to engage in Creation Care today.
As far as the aggregators comments go, I found them to be widely unhelpful and somewhat demeaning. The aggregator feels the necessity to remind you that they’re theologically liberal often. They also feel the necessity to comment on Stott’s theology almost as an apologetic for their school of thought. At one point the aggregator is almost arguing with Stott’s theology of the fall. There is a place to debate theology, but as an addendum to a dead man’s work is not the place to do it. I can’t think of a single instance where I thought the aggregators thoughts or opinions were insightful, added to the argument, or were otherwise helpful.
Read this work and read it outside!
July 5, 2022
This book has been so significant for me as it brought together themes and ideas that have been important to me personally but which I could never have expressed so clearly, ably and with anything like the theological insights.
I have always been drawn to John Stott's Christian mindset which seems always to have combined a clear commitment to biblical truth and a broad conviction that the same truths must be applied in the real world.
The reading of this has also helped me better understand why I have always been a misfit in the church family of which I am part and to which I am committed. These gathered thoughts from John Stott (and those inspired by him) have expressed in ways I never could the convictions that I have held for decades.
Painfully however I also acknowledge with shame my tardy awakening to Creation Care that Stott was voicing decades ago.
I will be recommending this book to many and circulating in my church family the spare copy I bought,
I have always been drawn to John Stott's Christian mindset which seems always to have combined a clear commitment to biblical truth and a broad conviction that the same truths must be applied in the real world.
The reading of this has also helped me better understand why I have always been a misfit in the church family of which I am part and to which I am committed. These gathered thoughts from John Stott (and those inspired by him) have expressed in ways I never could the convictions that I have held for decades.
Painfully however I also acknowledge with shame my tardy awakening to Creation Care that Stott was voicing decades ago.
I will be recommending this book to many and circulating in my church family the spare copy I bought,
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