Taiwanese Christian Worldview's Effects on Environmental Concern and Behavior

• Main Authors: Cheng, Chun-Teng, 鄭群騰
• Other Authors: Fang, Wei-Ta
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/2d4gma

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 環境教育研究所 === 105 === In recent years, the global climate has changed, and there have been several problems that are caused by environmental disruption. Those issues have seriously threatened the existence of human beings and other species on earth. Moreover, scholars indicate that the main point comes from behaviors of human beings themselves. In 1967, Lynn White criticized the Christian ideology, which people use the human-centered standard to ponder, and Lynn White believed that is the main reason that aroused many environmental problems. From then on, Christian theologians regressed their faith in the Bible and reinterpreted, and they found that the central ideology is God-centered standard. Therefore, Christian theologians considered that human do not dominate everything on the basis of his own will but according to the will and love of God and treat others as we expect to be treated. This ideology of Ecological Theology reversed the former ideology, which people thought that human beings are greater than all things and everything is existed for human beings, and responded environmental problems at that time. In the late 1980s, led by the United States, people began to reflect on research of the faith Stewardship Worldview of Christian on environmental care and environmental behavior. However, people can hardly find this type of research outside of America and let alone Taiwan. The practice of environmental protection for Taiwanese Christians began with Ms. Nancy Tzu-mei Chen. Ms. Chen established the Ecological Theology Center in 1992, and she expanded to establish Taiwan Ecological Stewardship Association (TESA). Furthermore, Ms. Chen promoted the environmental education based on the ecological theological point of view. As a pastor, her actions always correspond to her words, and she practices environment-friendly behaviors in the lives of the church. Generally speaking, the church does not pay special attention to the care of the environment, and some devout believers do not devote for environmental care. In order to clarify the Christian worldview of Taiwanese Christians, how the worldview influences environmental care and environmental behavior, and establish a model of environment-friendly behavior of Christians in Taiwan, I cited Bible, Theology, and professional books about ecological theological in this study. I raised “Church Attendance”, “Stewardship Worldview”, “Awareness of Consequence”, “Willing to Sacrifice”, “Private Behavior”, and “Politic Behavior”, utilizing Structure Equation Modeling (SEM) to perform Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) and Path Analysis. The study found that the“Stewardship Worldview” was positively impacting the “Politic Behavior” and “Private Behavior”, through the path of “Awareness of Consequence” positively impacted on “Willing to Sacrifice”. Based on the results, there are consistence and discrepancy between this study and some previous foreign studies. According to the results, I propose a behavioral model of the impact of the Christian worldview on environmental care and environmental behavior, raising specific recommendations on environmental education and belief education in the church.