Keeping God's earth :

Keeping God's earth : the global environment in biblical perspective / edited by Noah J. Toly and Daniel I. Block. - Downers Grove, Ill. : IVP Academic ; c2010. - 300 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [276]-284) and indexes.

Keeping God's earth-- toward an evangelical response to environmental challenges / Eschatology and environmental ethics: on the importance of biblical theology to creation care / Cities and the global environment / A biblical theology of the city and the environment: human community in the created order / The diversity of life: its loss and conservation / To serve and to keep: toward a biblical understanding of humanity's responsibility in the face of the biodiversity crisis / Water for life: global freshwater resources / A biblical theology of water: plenty, food, and drought in the created order / The changing global climate: evidence, impacts, adaptation and abatement / "The earth is the Lord's": biblical foundations for global ecological ethics and mission / Environmental ethics: bringing creation care down to earth / Noah J. Toly, Daniel I. Block -- Douglas Moo -- Noah J. Toly -- M. Daniel Carroll R. -- Fred Van Dyke -- Daniel I. Block -- Michael Guebert -- David Toshio Tsumura -- Sir John Houghton -- Christopher J. H. Wright -- David Gushee. Introduction:

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Human ecology--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Human ecology--Biblical teaching.
Evangelicalism.

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