the global environment in biblical perspective Toly, Noah creator text xx Downers Grove, Ill., Nottingham, England,  IVP Academic ; Apollos,  2010 9999 monographic und eng

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300 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Introduction: Keeping God's earth -- toward an evangelical response to environmental challenges / Noah J. Toly, Daniel I. Block -- Eschatology and environmental ethics: on the importance of biblical theology to creation care / Douglas Moo -- Cities and the global environment / Noah J. Toly -- A biblical theology of the city and the environment: human community in the created order / M. Daniel Carroll R. -- The diversity of life: its loss and conservation / Fred Van Dyke -- To serve and to keep: toward a biblical understanding of humanity's responsibility in the face of the biodiversity crisis / Daniel I. Block -- Water for life: global freshwater resources / Michael Guebert -- A biblical theology of water: plenty, food, and drought in the created order / David Toshio Tsumura -- The changing global climate: evidence, impacts, adaptation and abatement / Sir John Houghton -- "The earth is the Lord's": biblical foundations for global ecological ethics and mission / Christopher J.H. Wright -- Environmental ethics: bringing creation care down to earth / David Gushee. Noah Toly Human ecology—Religious aspects—Christianity.Human ecology—Biblical teaching.Evangelicalism BT695.5 .K44 2010 9780830838837083083883X 240426