Christian Worldview, Environment and Stewardship

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Christian Worldview, Environment, and Stewardship
The last three decades have seen a rapid improvement in the living conditions of human beings. It includes improvement in factors like life expectancy, industrial, and technological revolutions and finally open boundaries for shared trade and social developments. The famine which was a common occurrence in the world and according to historical contexts Europe experienced almost ‘7’ famines in a century which each of them lasting for at least a decade (Beisner). The word of “Famine” has vanished from European countries, however, it is still occurring in the under-developed parts of the world. The average European families in the 1700 A.D lived in an inhumane environment having small huts without any real furniture, no clothing, and barely enough food to feed the entire family (Beisner). Most of this food was given to the family as a payment of their work in the fields or laborers in the city. Europe was a dark place to live in during those time owing to lack of electricity, poor or no sewage systems, and access to a reliable health care city.
The current European societies are a complete contrast to the devastating conditions being experienced by their forefathers. Today, an average European family has access to almost every civil services a society can imagine for. The houses are well-built and every house is designed to provide protection depending on the weather on any other condition. The negative aspect of this modernized Europe is the presence of negligence and feeling of superiority in European communities when they are compared with the underdeveloped or developing countries. The negligence is not only at human scale but unchecked industrial development and increased socioeconomic status of the middle class has taken its toll on the fragile ecosystem of the planet (Beisner). However, blinded by the improved infrastructure and socio-economic statuses of their communities the majority of the population blame disadvantaged classes of the society for the disturbing ecosystem of the world (Bruner 12). This false choice is the basic reason for the elevated levels of poverty, disease, early deaths in the developing countries of the world. Moreover, the same negative aspects or attitudes and increasing income gaps is the major hurdle in the way of achieving uniform and genuine environmental stewardship (Bruner 12).
This research essay is aimed at presenting the theological and ethical foundations believed to be a source of environmental stewardship. The current human development on the basis of these theological and ethical foundations will also be reviewed and some of the major and minor environmental concerns will be discussed in relations Christian perspective. Some of the recommendations will be made to facilitate environmental developments in the future. The common assumption is the fact that both religion and ecological developments should be able to coordinate with each other achieve the basic demands of humans and fragile ecosystem of the planet.
* Theological and Ethical Foundations
Bible is one of the books which is used as a reference by majority of the people on planet earth. The ...