▼ Environmentalism, an ideology once vilified by whole swathes of the American evangelical community as pagan pantheism, has in recent years gained an increasingly larger foothold in the community. Prominent evangelical organizations and churches have drafted declarations expressing their concern for the deteriorating state of creation, denominational leaders are fervently promoting sustainability, and congregations are starting to reconsider their divinely ordained dominion over the earth. This thesis will explore this emerging phenomenon by examining these declarations as well as the scholarship of those evangelical leaders advocating creation care. I will provide a historical overview of such material since the 1970s, attempt to explain the factors that contributed to the movement, and explicate the philosophical nuances of both liberal and conservative evangelical treatments of the environment. Subsequently, I will offer an endorsement of a panentheistic, pneumatological, and pro-environmental evangelical framework that recognizes the pervasive presence of the divine in all life forms. This solution will build upon the liberal evangelical treatment of the environment isolated from the problematic notion of human ontology possessed by conservative evangelicals, while utilizing their shared theological language to establish a connection. I believe this modified creation care framework will stand supremely capable of catalyzing a shift within the conservative evangelical community toward an appropriate sustainability ethic, hopefully helping in some small way to stave off ecological Armageddon. Advisors/Committee Members: Pryor, Benjamin.