The Care of Creation

Focusing Concern and Action

Edited by R. J. Berry

(paperback)

Product Details

Line: IVP Academic
Length: 213 pages
Size: 5 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches
Binding: paperback
Published: June 2000

ISBN-10: 0-8308-1556-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-8308-1556-2
IVP Order Code: 1556

Related Subjects

Creation Care/Ecology

Foreword - John Stott

Part I: Rationale
An Evangelical Declaration on the Care of Creation: The Text

Part II: Context
1. The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis - Lynn White Jr.
2. Biblical Foundations for Creation Care - Ronald J. Sider
3. The Making of the Declaration - Loren Wilkinson
4. Creation's Environmental Challenge to Evangelical Christianity - Calvin B. DeWitt
5. The Declaration Under Siege - Richard T. Wright

Part III: Commentary
6. The Stewardship of the Creation: An Evangelical Affirmation - Alister E. McGrath
7. "Where Were You . . . ?" - Oliver M. T. O'Donovan
8. Commitment to Creation - I. Howard Marshall
9. Stewardship and Relationship - Richard Bauckham
10. God's Covenant and Our Responsibility - Jürgen Moltmann
11. The Earth Under Threat - Ghillean T. Prance
12. A Universal As Well As an Evangelical Declaration - Howard J. Van Till
13. Our Common Future - John T. Houghton
14. A New Look at Old Passages - Peter Harris
15. Love Your Neighbour As Yourself - Stephen Rand
16. The Declaration in Practice: Missionary Earth-keeping - Susan Drake Emmerich
17. Population Numbers and Environmental Degradation - John Guillebaud
18. Eschatology and Hope - Ron Elsdon
19. The Spirit of Environmentalism - Michael S. Northcott

Part IV: Conclusions
The God Who Set the Stars in Space - Timothy Dudley-Smith

Notes

Bibliography

The John Ray Initiative

General Index

Index of Bible References