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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Kevin M Lowe |
ISBN: | 9780190249458 0190249455 |
OCLC Number: | 906121469 |
Description: | viii, 249 pages ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Putting down roots: the rural church movement and the family farm -- Working together in God's country: training agrarian ministers and missionaries -- Spiritual efficiency: rethinking the rural church experience -- Cultivating the kingdom: the Lord's Acre movement -- The gospel of the soil: soil conservation and environmental stewardship. |
Responsibility: | Kevin M. Lowe. |
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Well-researched and thoughtfully argued, Lowe's work is a valuable addition to twentieth-century American religious historiography. * Adam Sweatman, Religious Studies Review * Kevin Lowe's Baptized with the Soil deserves a wide reading because it challenges the standard narrative... Lowe demonstrates that long before Aldo Leopold's important 1949 'land ethic,' Christian agrarians, in many and diverse ways were making the case and putting into practice soil conservation practices that were rooted in the theological conviction that the land is holy. * Norman Wirzba, Journal of Reformed Theology * Baptized with the Soil is informative for those interested in contexts of American religious history. It provides clarity as to how previous generations of church leaders thought about the relationship of church to society, mostly the rural influence on the wider culture. Rural pastors might gain insight on what it is many of their older members are missing (like Rural Life Sunday) and why they feel it so important. Every generation of believers seeks toreach others and influence culture; Christian agrarians were no different. * Marty Duren, Lifeway * Read more...

