Northland Church Creation Care Ministry

Evangelical Climate Initiative

Southern Baptist Creation Care

Evangelical Environmental Network

Good Description of Christian Environmental Ethic

Others in no particular order:

Susan P. Bratton – Baylor University chair of environmental stories. She has done some excellent work on how evangelicals ought to engage the subject of ecology. You’ll find her faculty page here.

Four of these books were primary sources in my thesis. Of those four, Terence Fretheim’s God and World gives the most attention to the topic of ecology. He is inventive in his thinking, but opts for a panentheistic view of God, and incorporates the open-theism of process theology. Then, John Goldingay’s Old Testament Theology vol. 1; along with Walter Brueggemann’s Old Testament theology, give ample attention to the topic. Goldingay is for the most part a good fit for evangelicals, as far as the doctrine of God as Creator goes. Brueggemann is a little harder to peg because of his method of doing Old Testament Theology. He a different view of ecology present in each of his three categories of testimony about God found within the Old Testament. Bruce Waltke in his Old Testament Theology gives the least attention to this topic. His theology is probably a “normal” evangelical church-goer’s idea of the doctrine of God, and ecology. It is a peripheral subject for him.

Ellen F. Davis is currently working on a book entitled Scripture, Culture, and Agriculture: An Agrarian Reading of the Bible which will be published later this year. She has also written articles dealing with ecology and the Old Testament. She teaches at Duke University.

Howard Wallace, Ellen Van Wolde, Eugene C. McAfee, and Norman C. Habel are all contributers to the Earth Bible Project.

Carol Newsom is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Old Testament at Emory University. You may know her from the Women’s Bible Commentary (1998).

All of these scholars are developing new ways of better understanding God’s relationship to his creation, and how humanity should stand in relationship to creation (ecology).

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