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Caring for Creation
An Introductory Bibliography

Christianity and the Environment
Bibliographies
Introductions to Environmental Science
Periodical
Videos
Websites

Christianity and the Environment
Berry, R. J., ed. The Care of Creation: Focusing Concern and Action. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2000.

Bouma-Prediger. For the Beauty of the Earth: A Christian Vision for Creation Care. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2001.

Bratton, Susan. Christianity, Wilderness and Wildlife: The Original Desert Solitaire. Scranton, PA: University of Scranton Press, 1993.

Bratton, Susan Power. Six Billion & More: Human Population Regulation and Christian Ethics. Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1992.

Brueggemann, Walter. The Land: Place as Gift, Promise and Challenge in Biblical Faith. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 1977.

Christiansen, Drew and Walter Grazer, eds. And God Saw That It Was Good: Catholic Theology and the Environment. Washington, DC: United States Catholic Conference, 1996.

Dempsey, Carol J. and Russell A. Butkus, eds. All Creation Is Groaning: An Interdisciplinary Vision for Life in a Sacred Universe. Foreword by Walter Brueggemann. Liturgical Press, 1999.

DeWitt, Calvin B. Earth-Wise: A Biblical Response to Environmental Issues. Grand Rapids, MI: CRC Publications, 1994.

DeWitt, Calvin B. Caring for Creation : Responsible Stewardship of God's Handiwork. With responses by Richard A. Baer, Thomas Sieger Derr, Vern Ehlers. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books 1998.

DeWitt, Calvin B. and Ghillean Prance, eds. Missionary Earthkeeping. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1992.

Fowler, Robert Booth. The Greening of Protestant Thought. Chapel Hill, NC: UNC Press, 1995.

Hall, Douglas John. Imaging God: Dominion as Stewardship. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1986.

Hoezee, Scott. Remember Creation: God's World of Wonder & Delight. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1998.

Kirk, Janice E. and Donald R. Kirk. Cherish the Earth: The Environment and Scripture. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1993.

John Leax, Out Walking: Reflections on Our Place in the Natural World. Baker Books. 2000.

LeQuire, Stan L., ed. The Best Preaching on Earth: Sermons on Caring for Creation. Foreword by Gordon MacDonald. Valley Forge PA: Judson Press, 1996.

Meyer, Art and Jocele. Earthkeepers: Environmental Perspectives on Hunger, Poverty and Injustice. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1991.

Moltmann, Jurgen. God in Creation: A New Theology of Creation and the Spirit of God. Minneapolis, Fortress Press, 1985.

Nash, James A. Loving Nature: Ecological Integrity and Christian Responsibility. Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 1991.

Northcott, Michael S. The Environment and Christian Ethics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Oelschlaeger, Max. Caring for Creation: An Ecumenical Approach to the Environmental Crisis. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1994.

Redekop, Calvin Wall, editor. Creation and the Environment: An Anabaptist Perspective on a Sustainable World. Baltimore, MD, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.

Roberts, Dayton, ed. Down-to-Earth Christianity: Creation-care in Ministry. Wynnewood, PA: Evangelical Environmental Network, 2000.

Santmire, H. Paul. The Travail of Nature: The Ambiguous Ecological Promise of Christian Theology. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 1985.

Santmire, H. Paul. Nature Reborn: The Ecological and Cosmic Promise of Christian Theology. Minneapolis, MN, Fortress Press, 2000.

Sittler, Joseph. Evocations of Grace: Writings on Ecology, Theology and Ethics. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2000.

VanDyke, Fred, David C. Mahan, Joseph K. Sheldon, Raymond H. Brand. Redeeming Creation: The Biblical Basis for Environmental Stewardship. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1996.

Wilkinson, Loren, ed. Earthkeeping in the 90's: Stewardship of Creation. Revised ed. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1991. (Reprint: Lightning Print, 2001)

Bibliographies
Bakken, Peter W. and Joan Gibb Engel and J. Ronald Engel. Ecology, Justice and Christian Faith: A Critical Guide to the Literature. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995.

Sheldon, Joseph K. Rediscovery of Creation: A Bibliographic Study of the Church's Response to the Environmental Crisis. ATLA Bibliography Series, No. 29. Metuchen, NJ/London: Scarecrow Press/American Theological Library Association, 1992.

Introductions to Environmental Science
Miller, G. Tyler, Jr. Environmental Science: Working with the Earth. [Current ed.] Belmont CA: Wadsworth Publishing Co.

Nebel, Bernard J. and Richard T. Wright. Environmental Science: The Way the World Works. [Current ed.] Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Periodical
Creation Care. Published quarterly by the Evangelical Environmental Network. 10 E Lancaster Ave., Wynnewood, PA 19096.

Videos
Between Heaven and Earth: The Plight of the Chesapeake Watermen. Skunkfilms, 2001.

Faithful Earthkeeping: The Church as a Creation Awareness Center. Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

Keeping the Earth: Religious and Scientific Perspectives on the Environment. Union of Concerned Scientists.

Websites
Christian Environmental Studies Center
Web of Creation

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