"Christianity bears a huge burden of guilt" for the ecological crisis, historian Lynn White charged in an infamous (at least to religious ecologists) 1966 address to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1967:1206). The response to this crisis, White went on to argue, must have a religious grounding since its roots were religious.

Despite the scholarly controversy over the validity of White's thesis (e.g., Dubos 1973), to many observers, White's verdict seemed to be empirically confirmed. In a period both of church declarations on social issues and of growing ...

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