Creation Care Discipleship – Why Earthkeeping Is an Essential Christian Practice

"A decisive case that creation care is necessary, not optional, to faithful Christian practice". In Creation Care Discipleship. , Steven Bouma-Prediger calls us to serve, protect, and restore our planet and demonstrates how we can put an "earthkeeping faith" into practice. "Over many years, Bouma-Prediger has been a leading voice charting the way for earthkeeping as an essential Christian practice. Now in his latest wide-ranging book, we are treated to a distillation of the wisdom he has acquired along the way. "-Norman Wirzba. , Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke Divinity School"This is a book that the whole church in the US will want to welcome. Deeply informed by recent ecumenical discussions and creatively engaged with current justice issues, this well-written study is predicated on a lucidly rendered ethic of Christian virtue. "-H. Paul Santmire. , author of Brother Earth. , The Travail of Nature: The Ambiguous Ecological Promise of Christian Theology. , and EcoActivist Testament. "Bouma-Prediger blends decades of reflection, teaching, and scholarship into a comprehensive study. Creation Care Discipleship. presents a decisive case that creation care is necessary, not optional, to faithful Christian practice. "-Debra Rienstra. , Calvin University; author of Refugia Faith. "I was twenty-one years old when I read my first Bouma-Prediger book. From that moment on, my life has been a sequence of events reverberating from reading this brilliant thinker. This book will have the same effect on a whole new generation. I can't commend it enough. "-A. J. Swoboda. , Bushnell University; author of After Doubt. "This is a book for our times. A rich and practical guide for how we can better live out God's call to care for all creation. "-Ben Lowe. , executive director, A Rocha USA"Bouma-Prediger's skills as a teacher are on full display in this wonderful book that manages in a short space to introduce readers to the biblical, theological, ethical, and practical foundations for earthkeeping. Highly recommended. "-Jonathan Moo. , Whitworth University