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Divine Destruction: Dominion Theology and American Environmental Policy (Melville Manifestos)

by Stephenie Hendricks

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The story that Stephenie Hendricks has uncovered affects the entire globe. In Divine Destruction, she charts important connections between Wise Use—a rabidly anti-environmental philosophy—and dominion theologists—far-right Christian ideologues who believe that there is no reason to protect the environment given the imminence of the Second Coming of Christ. But this collaboration also reaches all the way to the Bush administration, whose environmental policies are deeply influenced by dominionist thinking. Divine Destruction is an in-depth look at the radical remaking of American environmental policy already underway—in terrifying secret.… (more)
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The author goes inside the Christian reconstruction movement to detail their obsessions with turning the US into a Christian nation, and also the destructive nature of their environmental approach, which is to have dominion over the Earth and its creatures, regardless of how much damage they do. A must read. ( )
  Devil_llama | Apr 16, 2011 |
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The story that Stephenie Hendricks has uncovered affects the entire globe. In Divine Destruction, she charts important connections between Wise Use—a rabidly anti-environmental philosophy—and dominion theologists—far-right Christian ideologues who believe that there is no reason to protect the environment given the imminence of the Second Coming of Christ. But this collaboration also reaches all the way to the Bush administration, whose environmental policies are deeply influenced by dominionist thinking. Divine Destruction is an in-depth look at the radical remaking of American environmental policy already underway—in terrifying secret.

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