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Article: Seeking Dominion.(Interfaith Council for Environmental Stewardship created)(Brief Article)
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- E Magazine
- Article date:
- January 1, 2001
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Conservative Coalition Launches Interfaith Council to `Subdue' Nature
Who says that only liberals can launch environmental groups? A group of religious right leaders, scientists and academics celebrated the 30th anniversary of Earth Day by launching the Interfaith Council for Environmental Stewardship (ICES), an organization that aims to graft dominion theology onto conservative environmentalism.
For years, religious right groups have anchored their views on the environment in the book of Genesis (1:28): God granted "dominion over every living thing that moves on Earth."
"Because nature is wild," explains Nina George Hacker in Concerned Women ...