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Creation Care - Further Reading and Other Resources

Carbon Literacy in 1 hour training – please contact Rev Buff Forbes Stone: environment.officer@chichester.anglican.org

Other training: Climate Fresk

There is a wealth of theology for us to explore:-

Starting out:

  • Valerio, Ruth. Just Living : Faith and Community in an Age of Consumerism, Hodder (2016)
  • Valerio, Ruth, L is for Lifestyle: Christian Living that Doesn’t Cost the Earth. IVP, revised edition (2019) [paperback and e-book]
  • Dave Bookless: Planetwise IVP 2008
  • Making a World of Difference (Renew Our World, 2023) Dave Bookless (free to download)

Grove Books:

  • Climate Action as Mission: How to Link the Gospel with Safeguarding Creation (2021) by Grace Thomas and Mark Coleman
  • Renewing the Life of the Earth: Christian Discipleship and Environmental Action (2021) by Rachel Mash

Going deeper:

  • Hayhoe, Katharine: Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World. Simon & Schuster (2021)
  • Moo, Douglas J., and Moo, Jonathan A., Creation Care : a Biblical Theology of the Natural World. Zondervan (2018)
  • Walter Brueggemann: The Land: Place as Gift, Promise and Challenge in Biblical Faith. Fortress Press 2002
  • A M Ranawana: A Liberation for the Earth: Climate Race and the Cross. SCM Press, 2022
  • Norman Wirzba: This Sacred Life: Humanity’s place in a wounded world. 2021 Cambridge University Press
  • Bauckham Richard, Bible and Ecology: Rediscovering the Community of Creation, Darton, Longman, & Todd (2010)
  • Horrell, David, The Bible and the Environment: Towards a Critical, Ecological Biblical Theology, Equinox (2010)