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Book List

General reading:

  • How many Lightbulbs Does It Take To Change A Christian: a pocket guide to shrinking your ecological footprint Claire Foster and David Shreeve (Church House Publishing, 2007)
  • Don't Stop at the Lights: leading your church through a changing climate Claire Foster and David Shreeve (Church House Publishing, 2008)
  • Sharing God's Planet - a Christian Vision for a sustainable future Claire Foster (Church House Publishing, 2005)
  • Wildlife in Church and Churchyard - Plants, Animals and their Management, Nigel Cooper (Church House Publishing, 2001)
  • Down-to-earth Christianity: Creation-care in Ministry, Dayton Roberts, W. (Ed) (Evangelical Environmental Network, 2000)
  • Redeeming Creation, Fred van Dyke, David C Mahan, Joseph K Sheldon and Raymond H Brand (Downers Grove: IVP, 1996)
  • God's World, Ken Gnanakan (London: SPCK 1999)
  • Jesus and the Earth, James Jones (London: SPCK)
  • Changing Rural Life - A Christian Response to Key Rural Issues, Jeremy Martineau, Leslie J Franics and Peter Francis (Eds) (Canterbury Press, Norwich, 2004)
  • Caring for Creation: Biblical and Theological Perspectives, Sarah Tillett (Ed) (Oxford: Bible Reading Fellowship, 2005)
  • The Message of Creation, David Wilkinson (Leicester: IVP, 2002)
  • The Care of Creation: Focusing Concern and Action, R J Berry (Ed) (Leicester: IVP, 2000)

For more serious study:

  • God's Book of Works: The Nature and Theology of Nature, R J Berry (London: T & T Clark, 2003)
  • For the Beauty of the Earth: A Christian Vision for Creation Care, Steven Bouma-Prediger (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2001)
  • The Ethos of the Cosmos, William P Brown (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999)
  • God Who Creates: Essays in Honour of W Sibley Towner, William P Brown and S Dean McBride Jr (Eds) (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000)
  • God and World in the Old Testament: A Relational Theology of Creation, Terence E Fretheim (Nashville: Abingdon, 2005)
  • The Doctrine of Creation, Colin Gunton (Ed) (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1997)
  • The One, the Three and the Many: God, Creation and the Culture of Modernity, Colin Gunton (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993)
  • The Embers and the Stars, Erazim Kohak (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1984)
  • Creation Ex Nihilo: The Doctrine of 'Creation out of Nothing' in Early Christian Thought, Gerhard May. Translated by A S Worrall (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1994)
  • To Care for the Earth, Sean McDonagh (London: Geoffrey Chapman, 1986)
  • Super, Natural Christians; how we should love nature, Sallie McFague (London, SCM Press, 1997)
  • Scientific Theology, Volume 1: Nature. Vol. 1, Alister McGrath (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 2001)
  • The Cosmic Covenant: Biblical Themes of Justice, Peace and the Integrity of Creation, Robert Murray (Heythrop Monograph 7. London: Sheed & Ward, 1992)
  • The Environment and Christian Ethics, Michael S Northcott (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996)
  • Rain on a Land Where No One Lives: The Hebrew Bible on the Environment, Gene Tucker (Journal of Biblical Literature 116 (1997): 3-17)
  • Old Testament Ethics for the People of God, Christopher J H Wright (Leicester: IVP, 2004)