An Evangelical Environmental Movement

Creation care names environmental responsibility as it has been developed and framed specifically within evangelical Protestant Christianity, distinguished from the broader academic field of ecotheology by its consistent grounding in evangelical biblical authority and evangelistic language rather than in the more varied theological methods, including process theology and interfaith dialogue, that characterize ecotheology generally.

Organizations including the Evangelical Environmental Network, founded in the United States in the early 1990s, promoted creation care as a biblically mandated evangelical commitment rather than as a politically liberal or secular environmental cause, framing care for creation as a matter of following Jesus's teaching and honoring God as creator, a framing intended to make environmental concern legible and acceptable within a religious community whose political culture has often been skeptical of the mainstream environmental movement. International evangelical bodies have also taken up creation care language, including the Lausanne Movement's 2010 Cape Town Commitment, which named creation care as a gospel issue within the wider evangelical statement of faith and mission priorities.