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Evangelical Perspectives on Faith and the Environment: A Bibliography

Achtemeier, Elizabeth. Nature, God and Pulpit. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1992.

Alexander, Ann, Fred Clark, Fred Krueger, and Stan LeQuire. This Land is Your Land, this Land is God's Land: Takings Legislation vs. the Judeo Christian Land Ethic. Wynnewood, PA: Evangelical Environmental Network, 1997.

Badke, William B. Project Earth: Preserving the World God Created. Portland, OR: Multnomah Press, 1991.

Ball, Jim. Planting a Tree This Afternoon: Global Warming, Public Theology, and Public Policy. Crossroads Monograph Series on Faith and Public Policy, vol. 1 no. 18. Wynnewood, PA: Evangelicals for Social Action, 1998.

Ball, Jim. "The Use of Ecology in the Evangelical Protestant Response to the Ecological Crisis." Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith 50, no. 1 (March 1998): 20-38.

Basney, Lionel. An Earth Careful Way of Life: Christian Stewardship & the Environmental Crisis. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1994.

Beisner, E. Calvin. Prospects for Growth: A Biblical View of Population, Resources and the Future. Westchester, IL: Crossway Books, 1990.

------. Where Garden Meets Wilderness: Evangelical Entry Into the Environmental Debate. Grand Rapids, MI: Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty; Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1997.

Berry, R. J. Ecology and Ethics. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1972.

------. "Christianity and the Environment: Escapist Mysticism or Responsible Stewardship?" Science and Christian Belief 3 (1991): 3-18.

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

Bjelland, Mark. Thinking Regionally: Justice, Creation, and City Planning. Crossroads Monograph Series on Faith and Public Policy, no. 29. Wynnewood, PA: Evangelicals for Social Action, 1999.

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

------. The Greening of Theology: The Ecological Models of Rosemary Radford Ruether, Joseph Sittler, and Jurgen Moltmann. Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press, 1995.

Bouma Prediger, Steven and Virginia Vroblesky. Assessing the Ark: A Christian Perspective on Non Human Creatures and the Endangered Species Act. Crossroads Monograph Series on Faith and Public Policy, vol. 1 no. 10. Wynnewood, PA: Evangelicals for Social Action, 1997.

Brandt, Don, editor. God's Stewards: The Role of Christians in Creation Care. Foreword by Eugene H. Peterson. Monrovia, CA: World Vision International, 2002.

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.

Campolo, Tony. How to Rescue the Earth Without Worshiping Nature. Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1992.

Christian Scholar's Review: Theme Issue: The Fate of the Earth. Volume XXXII, Number 4 (Summer 2003).

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.

Elsdon, Ron. Bent World: A Christian Response to the Environmental Crisis. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1981.

------. Greenhouse Theology: Biblical Perspectives on Caring for Creation. Tunbridge Wells: Monarch, 1992.

Evangelical Review of Theology. Theme Issue: Evangelicals and the Environment: Theological Foundations for Christian Environmental Stewardship. Volume 17 Number 2 (April 1993).

Evans, David; Ronald Vos; Keith Wright, eds. Biblical Holism and Agriculture: Cultivating Our Roots. Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library, 2003.

Finger, Thomas. Evangelical Eschatology & the Environment. The Scholars Circle, vol. 1, no.2. Wynnewood, PA: Evangelical Environmental Network, 1996.

------. Self, Earth and Society. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1997.

Gottfried, Robert R. Economics, Ecology, and the Roots of Western Faith: Perspectives from the Garden. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1995.

Granberg-Michaelson, Wesley. A Worldly Spirituality: The Call to Redeem Life on Earth. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1984.

------, ed. Ecology and Life: Accepting Our Environmental Responsibility. Waco, TX, Word Books, 1988.

Harris, Peter. Under the Bright Wings. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1993.

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

Jones, James. Jesus and the Earth. Kelowna, BC: Wood Lake Books, 2003.

Kearns, Laurel. "Noah’s Ark Goes to Washington: A Profile of Evangelical Environmentalism." Social Compass 44 (1997): 349-66.

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

Kline, David. Great Possessions: An Amish Farmer's Journal. With a foreword by Wendell Berry. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1990.

Land, R. D., ed. L. A. Moore, ed. The Earth is the Lord's: Christians and the Environment. Nashville: Broadman Press, 1992.

Leax, John. Standing Ground: A Personal Story of Faith and Environmentalism. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1991.

------. Out Walking: Reflections on Our Place in the Natural World. Grand Rapids, MI: 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.

McGrath, Alister E. The Reenchantment of Nature: The Denial of Religion and the Ecological Crisis. New York: Doubleday & Company, 2002.

Wilkinson, Loren, ed. Earthkeeping in the 90's: Stewardship of Creation. Revised ed. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1991.

Williams, Dennis C. God's Wilds: John Muir's Vision of Nature. Environmental History Series, no. 18. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2002.

Young, Richard A. Healing the Earth: A Theocentric Perspective on Environmental Problems and Their Solutions. Nashville, TN: Broadman & Holman, 1994.

------. Is God a Vegetarian? Christianity, Vegetarianism, and Animal Rights. Chicago: Open Court Publishing Company, 1998.

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