were superior and given dominion over the rest of nature. This approach, Schaeffer worried, could be extended into a full-blown pantheism. Pantheism is the view that all of life is part of the divine, and that all living things are sacred. The appeal of pantheism for environmentalists, Schaeffer said, citing sociologist Richard L. Means, is that human beings will be less likely to degrade nature if they see it as sacred and see themselves as equal to the rest of nature.37 Schaeffer critiqued this