Sustainable Land Stewardship In the Adirondacks

摘要

Religious responses to environmental concerns are on the rise, and one area where faith-based environmental efforts may have particular promise in the Adirondacks is in environmental wilderness ministries. Increasingly, Christian camping and wil-rnderness ministries have incorporated envi-rnronmental themes to foster environmental citizenship. This development counters therntradition of environmentalist thinking thatrnemphasizes the alleged environmental negativity of Judeo-Christian views on nature, such as Roderick Nash's popular indictment of biblical views in Wilderness and the American Mind. Biblical scholarship reveals a more positive legacy. As exemplified by Camp Fowler near Speculator, New York, environmental wilderness ministries foster a range of virtues conducive to sustainable community development and land stewardship.