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Mainline Perspectives on Faith and the Environment: A Bibliography

Anderson, Bernard W. From Creation to New Creation: Old Testament Perspectives. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 1994.

Austin, Richard C. Environmental Theology. 4 vols.: Baptized Into Wildermess: A Christian Perspective on John Muir; The Beauty of the Lord: Awakening the Senses; Hope for the Land: Nature in the Bible; Reclaiming America: Restoring Nature to Culture. Atlanta, GA: John Knox Press, 1987-1990.

Baker Fletcher, Karen. Sisters of Dust, Sisters of Spirit: Womanist Wordings on God and Creation. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 1998.

Barbour, Ian. Ethics in an Age of Technology. New York: HarperCollins, 1993.

Barbour, Ian, ed. Earth Might Be Fair. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1972.

Berry, Wendell. "Christianity and the Survival of Creation." Chapt. 7 in Sex, Economy, Freedom and Community: Eight Essays, 93 116. New York: Pantheon, 1993.

Bhagat, Shantilal P. Creation in Crisis: Responding to God's Covenant. Elgin, IL: Brethren Press, 1990.

Birch, Bruce C., and Larry Rasmussen. The Predicament of the Prosperous. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1978.

Birch, Charles and John B. Cobb. The Liberation of Life: From the Cell to the Community. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981.

Bonifazi, Conrad. A Theology of Things: A Study of Man in His Physical Environment. Philadelphia: JB Lippincott Co., 1967.

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

Clark, J. Michael. Beyond Our Ghettos: Gay Theology in Ecological Perspective. Cleveland, OH: Pilgrim Press, 1993.

Cobb, John B. Is It Too Late? A Theology of Ecology. Revised Ed. Denton, TX: Environmental Ethics Books, 1995 [1st ed. Beverly Hills, California: Bruce, 1972].

------. Sustainability: Economics, Ecology, and Justice. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1992.

------. Sustaining the Common Good: A Christian Perspective on the Global Economy. Cleveland, OH: The Pilgrim Press, 1995.

Conradie, Ernst M. An Ecological Christian Anthropology: At Home on Earth? Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2005.

Daly, Herman E., and John B. Jr. Cobb. For the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy Toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future. 2nd Edition, Updated and Expanded. With contributions by Clifford W. Cobb. Boston: Beacon Press, 1994.

Deane Drummond, Celia. The Ethics of Nature. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2004.

Derr, Thomas Sieger. Ecology and Human Need. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1975.

Derr, Thomas Sieger, James A. Nash, and Richard John Neuhaus. Environmental Ethics and Christian Humanism. With an introduction by Max Stackhouse. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1996.

Fern, Richard L. Nature, God, and Humanity: Envisioning an Ethics of Nature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Freudenberger, C. Dean. Food for Tomorrow? Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1984.

Gibson, William E. Eco-Justice – The Unfinished Journey. Albany: SUNY Press, 2004.

Gilkey, Langdon. Nature, Reality and the Sacred: The Nexus of Science and Religion. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1994.

Gorringe, Timothy J. Theology of the Built Environment: Justice, Empowerment, Redemption. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Granberg Michaelson, Wesley. Redeeming the Creation: The Rio Earth Summit: Challenges for the Churches. Geneva: WCC Publications, 1992.

Gustafson, James M. A Sense of the Divine: The Natural Environment from a Theocentric Perspective. Cleveland, OH: Pilgrim Press, 1994.

Habel, Norman. The Land is Mine: Six Biblical Land Ideologies. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 1995.

Hall, Douglas John. Imaging God: Dominion as Stewardship. Grand Rapids, MI and New York: Wm. B. Eerdmans; Friendship Press, 1986.

------. The Steward: A Biblical Symbol Come of Age. Revised Edition. Grand Rapids, MI and New York: William B. Eerdmans; Friendship Press, 1990.

Hallman, David G. Caring for Creation: The Environmental Crisis, A Canadian Call to Action. Winfield, BC: Wood Lake Books, 1989.

-------. Spiritual Values for Earth Community. Geneva: WCC Publications, 2000.

Hendry, George S. Theology of Nature. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1980.

Hessel, Dieter T., ed. After Nature's Revolt: Eco Justice and Theology. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1992.

------, ed. For Creation's Sake: Preaching, Ecology and Justice. Philadelphia: The Geneva Press, 1985.

------, ed. Theology for Earth Community: A Field Guide. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1996.

Hessel, Dieter T. and Larry L. Rasmussen, eds. Earth Habitat: Eco-Injustice and the Church’s Response. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2001.

Hiebert, Theodore. The Yahwist's Landscape: Nature and Religion in Early Israel. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Hutchinson, Roger. Prophets, Pastors and Public Choices: Canadian Churches and the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Debate. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1992.

Jung, L. Shannon. We Are Home: A Spirituality of the Environment. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1993.

------. Food For Life: The Spirituality and Ethics of Eating. Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg Fortress, 2004.

Keller, Catherine. Apocalypse Now and Then: A Feminist Guide to the End of the World. Boston: Beacon Press, 1996.

------. The Face of the Deep: A Theology of Becoming. London: Routledge, 2002.

King, Paul G. and David O. Woodyard. Liberating Nature: Theology and Economics in a New Order. Cleveland, OH: Pilgrim Press, 1999.

Lilburne, Geoffrey R. A Sense of Place: A Christian Theology of the Land. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1989.

Linzey, Andrew. Animal Theology. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995.

------. Christianity and the Rights of Animals. London: SPCK, 1987.

Lowdermilk, W. C. "The Eleventh Commandment." American Forests 46 (January 1933): 12 15.

McDaniel, Jay B. Earth, Sky Gods and Mortals: Developing an Ecological Spirituality. Mystic, CT: Twenty Third Publications, 1990.

------. Of God and Pelicans: A Theology of Reverence for Life. Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1989.

McFague, Sallie. The Body of God: An Ecological Theology. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 1993.

------. Super, Natural Christians: How We Should Love Nature. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1997.

------. Life Abundant: Rethinking Theology and Economy for a Planet in Peril. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2001.

Martin Schramm, J. B. Population Perils and the Churches' Response. Geneva: World Council of Churches, 1997.

Martin-Schramm, James B. and Robert L. Stivers. Christian Environmental Ethics: A Case Method Approach. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2003.

Matthews, Paul. The Revelation of Nature. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2001.

Moltmann, Jürgen. God in Creation: A New Theology of Creation and the Spirit of God. Translated by Margaret Kohl. San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1985.

------. The Spirit of Life: A Universal Affirmation. Translated by Margaret Kohl. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1992.

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

National Council of Churches. Energy and Ethics: The Ethical Implications of Energy Production and Use. New York: National Council of Churches, Division of Church and Society, 1979.

Neuhaus, Richard John. In Defense of People: Ecology and the Seduction of Radicalism. New York: Macmillan Co., 1971.

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

Pitcher, Alvin. Listen to the Crying of the Earth: Cultivating Creation Communities. Cleveland OH: Pilgrim Press, 1993.

Presbyterian Eco Justice Task Force. Keeping and Healing the Creation. Louisville KY: Presbyterian Church (USA), Committee on Social Witness Policy, 1989.

Winter, Gibson. Liberating Creation: Foundations of Religious Social Ethics. New York: Crossroad, 1981.

Wirzba, Norman. Paradise of God: Renewing Religion in an Ecological Age. Oxford University Press 2003.

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