1st Edition

Religion, Narrative, and the Environmental Humanities Bridging the Rhetoric Gap

By Matthew Newcomb Copyright 2023
152 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge

Religion, Narrative, and the Environmental Humanities provides a fresh look at rhetoric, religion, and environmental humanities through narratives of evangelical culture, analyses of evangelical writing, and their connection to environmental topics. This volume aims to present a cultural understanding between evangelical and non-evangelical communities, exploring how environmental priorities... Read more

Chapter 1: Talking Systematic Theology: An Introduction

Chapter 2: Eschatology: Escaping the Apocalypse with Evangelicals and Environmentalists

Chapter 3: Scripture and Authority: The Department of Hermeneutic Security

Chapter 4: Stewardship: Human Care through Creation Care in Evangelical Environmental Statements

Chapter 5: Evangelism: Share the Good (and Bad) Environmental News

Chapter 6: Knowing Creation: "Bible Science" and the Possibility of Global Warming

Chapter 7: Sin and Righteousness: Affective Dissonance and Comparing Environmental and Political Priorities

Chapter 8: Evangelical Conservation: A Postscript

Biography

Matthew Newcomb earned his PhD in English (with an emphasis in Rhetoric and Composition) from Pennsylvania State University. He currently serves as an Associate Professor of English at SUNY New Paltz where he directed the Composition Program for ten years, earning the Dean’s Outstanding Service Award. His publications on argument, affect, environment, sports rhetoric, and composition theory have appeared in Rhetoric Review, College Composition and Communication, JAC, Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment, enculturation, Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, and elsewhere.