Patrick Dobel’s the Judeo-Christian Stewardship Attitude

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Introduction

In Patrick Dobel’s The Judeo-Christian Stewardship Attitude toward Nature, it is apparent that the argument depends on the idea that, people who argue of Christianity as an environmentally exploitative religion, or apply Christianity to validate environmental misuse are twisting the actual message of Christianity, which is the role of human beings as care givers to the surrounding. Whereas the author brings forth a great argument backing the position, it lacks more illustrations on the manner through which religion is twisted. The author should have availed a detailed evaluation on how Christianity and differing religions have been twisted, in regard to the environment.

Dobel’s Notion of Stewardship

Patrick Dobel states that the stewardship imperative supposes that the ethical, as well as ecological restrictions, are endowed, adding the mandate to disburse the gains fairly. This implies that the steward ought to “give them their fraction of the food at their appropriate period.” The stewardship ethic thus has three fundamentals, which are lasting accountability for the overall protection of nature, sustainable ecological, in addition to economic application, of the goods, as well as fair sharing of the goods and accountabilities amid the population. Hence, according to Dobel, it is hard to envision a greater illustration of what stewardship in the creative moral sense implies, apart from stewardship of soil. It is the general possession of human and natural society, which we ought to utilize sustainably. Care and gains ought to be shared by all individuals in the human society. Dobel further notes that the fundamental notion of Christian stewardship ought not to be comprehended in such a manner that, it makes us follow a predictable journey of environmental dilapidation. In actuality, an environmental ethic founded on stewardship would be expanded for the aim of availing ample safeguard for the surrounding. He points out that there is a far reaching notion that specific religious guidelines have played a relative function in the origins of the environmental predicament. Our evaluation becomes slightly significant in uncovering the correct past, rather in learning a thing on the reasons for our beliefs.

Argument against Dobel’s Notion

Dobel’s argument on stewardship gives rise to various major issues. These include: if cultures not founded in Judeo-Christian spirituality are to some extreme environmentally affable. There is also concern as to whether there prevails a religious foundation to the obvious alienation of people from nature and if the separation has a relevant impact on the manner we behave towards the surrounding.