ABSTRACT
With particular attention to missionary strategies on the ground and locally, this chapter examines the development and evolution of Creation Care in Argentina as a way to understand the relationship of Evangelicalism to environmental advocacy in Latin America. As the leading network for Evangelical-Pentecostal mission in the world, the Lausanne Movement (LM) is best understood as a reform movement, with its founders reacting against what they saw as a global Evangelical and Protestant establishment that was too inward looking. Instead LM opted for a stronger emphasis on reaching the “un-reached” through mission and conversion, with the slogan “The whole Church to take the whole gospel to the whole world.” LM soon evolved into a network for global Evangelicalism. In the early 2000s, horizontal and vertical strategies of evangelization were brought together under a new concept, “Holistic Mission,” understood to include more social responsibilities alongside evangelistic ones. A wide range of campaigns followed, of which Creation Care – an Evangelical environmental movement – is among the most important.
