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2017-05-12

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Evangelical groups have often been considered politically conservative on issues such as climate change and abortion. However, some evangelical groups employ pro-life rhetoric as a tool to influence pro-life evangelicals to consider climate change as an evangelical issue. The Evangelical Environmental Network (EEN) is one such group. Analyzing the EEN’s pro-life environmental rhetoric through the lens of what Chaïm Perelman and L. Olbrechts-Tyteca define in The New Rhetoric as dissociation allows rhetoricians to visualize the rhetorical moves of the EEN. The EEN dissociates the term pro-life from its common usage as anti-abortion and redefines pro-life as all life—including the environment. The EEN’s dissociative rhetoric compels evangelicals to accept the reality of climate change and take efforts to address it as part of their Christian responsibility to care for God’s creation.

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evangelical, environmentalism, pro-life, rhetoric

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