Abraham 40, 50, 79, 95, 96, 99, 118, 119, 121, 134, 135, 162, 198
Adam 50, 69, 89, 90, 94, 95, 102, 105, 120, 154, 159, 162, 168, 170, 189, 190, 199
Adam and Eve 21, 66, 68, 70, 94, 125, 126, 149
Ambrose of Milan 55, 146, 148, 151, 152, 160
anthropocentrism 179
Athanasius 148
Athenagoras 71
Augustine of Hippo 4, 25, 27, 28, 43, 145-175
Beisner, Calvin 16, 17, 18, 49, 64, 65, 69, 75, 134-137, 137, 180, 190
biocapacity 201, 204, 205, 207
biodiversity 29, 143, 177, 178, 179, 180, 184, 186, 188, 189, 207
birth rate 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 13, 15, 21, 33, 36, 45, 51, 57, 63, 65
Cainites 125
Calvinists 64
New Calvinist Movement 212
Orthodox Calvinists of the Netherlands 16
Calvin, John 96, 138, 190, 211
Canaan 116, 119, 126, 137, 192
Canaanites 116, 122-124, 135, 192, 194
Carlson, Allan 14, 16, 17, 18, 37, 39, 50, 78, 85, 106, 132, 203, 204, 209, 215
Catholicism 4, 10, 11, 20, 27, 35, 59, 77, 81, 107, 145, 146, 147, 174, 182
childfree 66
childlessness 4, 31, 39, 47, 56, 63, 66, 87, 97, 115, 173
Cohen, Jeremy 27
consumption 8, 113, 163, 177, 182, 184, 195
contraception 4, 20, 32, 33, 34, 35, 43, 46, 76, 139, 142, 150, 209, 212
cornucopia 64
cornucopian ideology 64-65, 85, 100, 102, 134, 136, 165, 197
eco-Bible hermeneutic 184
ecological footprint 14, 22, 29, 177, 184, 186, 205, 207. See also natalism, ecological critique of
ecological hermeneutic 178
ecological sustainability. See sustainability
eschatology 52, 100, 101, 107, 132, 147, 148, 155, 165, 167, 175, 188
Evangelicalism 11, 14-15, 29, 35-38
Evangelicals 1, 14, 17, 79, 182, 213
extinction 87, 116, 142, 180, 185, 186, 189, 198, 199, 201, 207, 210
family
planning 2, 4, 9, 10, 12, 17, 19, 20, 34, 35, 36, 43, 44, 74, 75, 182, 209
values 77
Gadamer, Hans-Georg 23, 26, 27
genetic 52, 55, 119, 122, 148, 166, 181, 185
immortality 56, 114, 128, 141, 143, 155, 156, 164, 206
infertility 2, 3, 20, 31, 32, 40, 45, 54, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 111, 127, 128, 130, 171
Jacob (Israel) 79, 96, 113, 118, 119, 122, 135, 136, 138, 144, 192
Jovinian 86, 146, 149, 152, 153, 157, 166, 174, 175
Lutheran Church Missouri Synod 34, 35, 211, 213
Lutheranism 16, 17, 37, 43, 79, 211
Luther, Martin 23, 28, 29, 42, 77-108, 145, 172, 173, 175, 180, 209, 212
Manicheism 145, 146, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 164, 174
Melancthon, Philipp 93
Mohler, Albert 16, 17, 37, 39, 44, 49, 54, 59, 66, 74, 204
Moses 66, 70, 110, 115, 116, 120, 121, 122, 137, 161, 192, 193, 194
Mussolini, Benito 33
natalism
ecological critique of 177-208
limited 4, 12, 17-19, 18, 23, 44, 49, 52, 75, 78, 212
unlimited 4, 6, 17, 17-19, 23, 38, 40, 44, 45, 45-49, 52, 62, 65, 70, 74-76, 78, 129, 212
Natural Family Planning 3, 4, 145
Origen 148
Orthodox Catholic Church (Eastern) 15, 20
Pentecostal 14
population 6
prosperity 14, 26, 40, 53, 63, 73, 124, 134
Protestants 4, 9, 12, 16, 38, 43
fundamentalist 9
Quiverfull 4, 9, 12, 16, 18, 23, 37, 38, 45, 46, 48, 49, 62, 69, 211, 212
Rachel 79, 87, 96, 96-100, 123, 138
reception 1, 5, 11, 14, 14-16, 20-29, 39-44, 75, 77-81, 106, 118, 123, 144, 178, 179, 184, 196, 211, 212, 216
ressourcement 27-29, 145, 163-174, 175, 177, 180, 210, 211
Southern Baptist 18
Convention 13
Sproul, R. C., Jr. 36, 41, 50, 51
sustainability 8, 14, 21, 29, 163, 177, 187, 204, 205, 207, 212, 214