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9781589019973 | Georgetown Univ Pr, September 1, 2013, cover price $29.95

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Product Description: Not long ago, J. Matthew Sleeth had a fantastic life and a great job as chief of the medical staff at a large hospital. He was living the American dream---until he saw an increasing number of his patients suffering from cancer, asthma, and other chronic diseases...read more
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9780310320043 | Upd exp edition (Zondervan, March 19, 2013), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Not long ago, J.

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Product Description: For decades, Sallie McFague has lent her voice and her theological imagination to addressing and advocating for the most important issues of our time. In doing so, she has influenced an entire generation, and empowered countless people in their efforts to put religion in the service of meeting human needs in difficult times...read more
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9780800699604 | Fortress Pr, March 1, 2013, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: For decades, Sallie McFague has lent her voice and her theological imagination to addressing and advocating for the most important issues of our time.

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Product Description: Thoughtful observers agree that the planetary crisis we now face-climate change; species extinction; the destruction of entire ecosystems; the urgent need for a more just economic-political order-is pushing human civilization to a radical turning point: change or perish...read more
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9780199917006 | Oxford Univ Pr, November 2, 2012, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Thoughtful observers agree that the planetary crisis we now face-climate change; species extinction; the destruction of entire ecosystems; the urgent need for a more just economic-political order-is pushing human civilization to a radical turning point: change or perish.

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Product Description: Despite three decades of scientists' warnings and environmentalists' best efforts, the political will and public engagement necessary to fuel robust action on global climate change remain in short supply. Katharine K. Wilkinson shows that, contrary to popular expectations, faith-based efforts are emerging and strengthening to address this problem...read more
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9780199895885, titled "Between God & Green: How Evangelicals Are Cultivating a Middle Ground on Climate Change" | Oxford Univ Pr, June 25, 2012, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Despite three decades of scientists' warnings and environmentalists' best efforts, the political will and public engagement necessary to fuel robust action on global climate change remain in short supply.

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Product Description: God is reconciling all things in heaven and on earth. We are alienated not only from one another, but also from the land that sustains us. Our ecosystems are increasingly damaged, and human bodies are likewise degraded. Most of us have little understanding of how our energy is derived or our food is produced, and many of our current industrialized practices are both unhealthy for our bodies and unsustainable for the planet...read more
By Bill McKibben (foreword by)
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9780830834570 | Ivp Books, October 1, 2012, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: God is reconciling all things in heaven and on earth.

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Product Description: Help make the world a greener place!  Join author Emma Sleeth as she explores the theology behind creation care and suggests practical steps young people can take to protect the environment at their schools, around their homes, and in their communities.
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9780310730064 | Exp rev edition (Zondervan, April 1, 2012), cover price $9.99 | About this edition: Help make the world a greener place!

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Product Description: Did God instruct the human race to be His caretakers over nature? If so, is environmental exploitation disobedience to God? Is it true, as many critics claim, that Christianity is the root cause of today's environmental problems--or are all religions and cultures responsible? How should the church respond? Should Christians Be Environmentalists? systematically tackles these tough questions and more by exploring what the Bible says about the environment and our stewardship of creation...read more
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9780825442490 | Kregel Pubns, February 3, 2012, cover price $13.99 | About this edition: Did God instruct the human race to be His caretakers over nature?

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9781610973793 | Wipf & Stock Pub, January 6, 2012, cover price $15.00

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Product Description: The Bible and Christian tradition have, at best, offered an ambiguous word in response to Earth's environmental difficulties. At worst, a complex, often one-sided history of interpretation has left the Bible's voice silent. Aiming to bridge these gaps, Richard Bauckham mines scripture and theology, discovering a firm command for Christians to care for all of God's creation and then discusses the generations of theologians who have sought to live out this biblical mandate...read more
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9781602584112 | Baylor Univ Pr, November 1, 2011, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: The Bible and Christian tradition have, at best, offered an ambiguous word in response to Earth's environmental difficulties.

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Product Description: Scientific assertions about our shared origins with other species and shared dependence on global ecosystems are often resisted and even dismissed on the grounds that humans are different from all other beings in both degree and kind...read more
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9781598150315, titled "Cultivating Unity Within the Biodiversity of God: Within the Biodiversity of God" | Polebridge Pr Westar Inst, August 9, 2011, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Scientific assertions about our shared origins with other species and shared dependence on global ecosystems are often resisted and even dismissed on the grounds that humans are different from all other beings in both degree and kind.

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Product Description: As the global climate crisis worsens, many churches have sought to respond by instituting a movement to observe a liturgical season of creation. Scholars who have pioneered the connections between biblical scholarship, ecological theology, liturgy, and homiletics provide here a comprehensive resource for preaching and leading worship in this new season...read more
By David Rhoads (editor)
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9780800696573 | Fortress Pr, July 1, 2011, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: As the global climate crisis worsens, many churches have sought to respond by instituting a movement to observe a liturgical season of creation.

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Product Description: Earthwise is about living in harmony with the natural world around us and sharing the joy of this living.Sadly, our ways of life in today's global economy have led to increasing land and habitat destruction, pollution, species extinction, buildup of "greenhouse gases," and other degradations of the earth...read more
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9781592556724 | 3 edition (Faith Alive Christian Resources, May 20, 2011), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Earthwise is about living in harmony with the natural world around us and sharing the joy of this living.

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Product Description: Planning and architecture have to be understood in relation to climate change and peak oil, and the concept of the common good is key to understanding how important this is. Leading on from his previous book, A Theology of the Built Environment, T...read more
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9781107002012 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 21, 2011, cover price $97.00 | About this edition: Planning and architecture have to be understood in relation to climate change and peak oil, and the concept of the common good is key to understanding how important this is.

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Product Description: A powerful warning of the perils of global warming and a mobilization of the Christian conscience to change our thinking, our ways of acting, and so to save our planet. The recent Gulf oil spill is just the latest depredation against the planet...read more
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9781570759208 | Orbis Books, March 1, 2011, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: A powerful warning of the perils of global warming and a mobilization of the Christian conscience to change our thinking, our ways of acting, and so to save our planet.

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Product Description: It Is Easy Being Green features sixty exciting craft projects that children will enjoy making while learning about the Bible and building their faith. Simple "green" crafts accompany a related Bible story Bible stories. Teachers will enjoy clear, step-by-step instructions, along with a materials list featuring green or recycled products...read more
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9781426716058, titled "It Is Easy Bring Green!: 60 Bible Stories & Crafts With the Earth in Mind" | Abingdon Pr, April 1, 2011, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: It Is Easy Being Green features sixty exciting craft projects that children will enjoy making while learning about the Bible and building their faith.

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Product Description: As debates over climate change rage in Washington and American consumers become ever more conscientious about 'going green,' evangelical Christians are increasingly concerned about the proper relationship between faith and environmentalism...read more
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9780844743745 | Aei Pr, October 1, 2010, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: As debates over climate change rage in Washington and American consumers become ever more conscientious about 'going green,' evangelical Christians are increasingly concerned about the proper relationship between faith and environmentalism.

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Product Description: An impassioned call to heal the wounds of our planet and ourselves through the tenets of our spiritual traditions, from a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize  It is so easy, in our modern world, to feel disconnected from the physical earth...read more
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9780307591142 | Doubleday, September 14, 2010, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: An impassioned call to heal the wounds of our planet and ourselves through the tenets of our spiritual traditions, from a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize  It is so easy, in our modern world, to feel disconnected from the physical earth.

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9780307591159 | Doubleday, September 14, 2010, cover price $13.00

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9780567033031, titled "Ecological Hermeneutics: Biblical, Historical and Theological Perspectives" | T&t Clark Ltd, August 1, 2010, cover price $145.00 | About this edition: <br /> >

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9780567033048, titled "Ecological Hermeneutics: Biblical, Historical and Theological Perspectives" | T&t Clark Ltd, August 1, 2010, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: <br /> >

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Product Description: Environmental issues have in recent years come to the centre stage of political and ethical debate. Moreover, there has long been the charge, classically formulated by Lynn White Jr, that the biblical and Christian tradition has legitimated and encouraged humanitys aggressive domination of nature to serve human interests...read more
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9781845536213 | Acumen Pub Ltd, September 8, 2010, cover price $99.95 | About this edition: Environmental issues have in recent years come to the centre stage of political and ethical debate.

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9781845536220 | Acumen Pub Ltd, September 8, 2010, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Environmental issues have in recent years come to the centre stage of political and ethical debate.

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Product Description: Christians have God's mandate to be good stewards of his creation, but it is a challenge to discover a wise and biblical perspective on issues of creation care, apart from the political rhetoric. Care of Creation offers a biblical foundation and practical guidance about how Christians can personally exercise responsible care of God's good creation...read more
By Joseph Coleson (editor)
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9780898274516 | Wesley Pr, May 1, 2010, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Christians have God's mandate to be good stewards of his creation, but it is a challenge to discover a wise and biblical perspective on issues of creation care, apart from the political rhetoric.

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Product Description: In GREEN LIKE GOD, Jonathan Merritt gently and insightfully observes that the bible has a lot to say about environmental problems like unclean water, material waste, over consumption, air pollution, and global warming. In fact, Jonathan writes that "in the book of Genesis, God went green and never looked back...read more
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9780446557252 | Faithwords, April 21, 2010, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: In GREEN LIKE GOD, Jonathan Merritt gently and insightfully observes that the bible has a lot to say about environmental problems like unclean water, material waste, over consumption, air pollution, and global warming.

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9780446569163 | Faithwords, April 21, 2010, cover price $9.99

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9781598597172 | Unabridged edition (Oasis Audio, April 6, 2010), cover price $24.99 | About this edition: In Green Like God, Jonathan Merritt gently and insightfully observes that the Bible has a lot to say about environmental problems like unclean water, material waste, over consumption, air pollution, and global warming.

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Product Description: The Bible is an inconvenient text. There are passages that are 'grey' rather than 'green'. These passages depict God or humans destroying or devaluing parts of creation. What if we dare to read these 'grey texts' from the perspective of the victims - Earth and the domains of Earth? How then would we relate to these de-valued parts of creation? And, how does this Gospel contribute to resolving this dilemma? Norm Habel has taught Old Tesatment in Australia, the USA and India...read more
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9781921511561 | Atf Pr, September 15, 2009, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: The Bible is an inconvenient text.

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By Lindy Scott (editor)
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9781556358449, titled "Christians, the Care of Creation, & Global Climate Change" | Pickwick Pubns, March 1, 2008, cover price $17.00

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Product Description: A call for the reappraisal of why Christians can and should work towards the wholeness of the biophysical environment. Green Witness explores the church's role as exemplar in striving towards the fulfillment of God's promise of peace, health and diversity to his Kingdom...read more
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9780718892210, titled "Green Witness: Ecology, Ethics, and the Kingdom of God" | Reprint edition (Lutterworth Pr, July 15, 2010), cover price $39.00 | About this edition: A call for the reappraisal of why Christians can and should work towards the wholeness of the biophysical environment.
9781556353352, titled "Green Witness: Ecology, Ethics, and the Kingdom of God" | Wipf & Stock Pub, January 1, 2008, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: A call for the reappraisal of why Christians can and should work towards the wholeness of the biophysical environment.

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