Includes bibliographical references (p. 453-467) and index.

Introduction. From saving the whales to protecting the planet as a "duty incumbent on each and all" / Tobias Winright -- Part I. Reading the signs of the times -- 1. The signs of the times: the state of the question among ecologists / Cathy Mabry McMullen -- 2. Restoring creation and redressing the public square: religious environmentalism and the Columbia River pastoral / Michael Agliardo -- 3. If you want to cultivate peace, protect creation: message for the 2010 World Day of Peace / Pope Benedict XVI -- Part II. The scriptures -- 4. Creation and the environment in the Hebrew scriptures: a transvaluation of values / Randall Smith -- 5. A new heaven and a new earth: creation in the New Testament / Thomas Bushlack -- Part III. Christian tradition -- 6. Retrieving Saint Francis: tradition and innovation for our ecological vocation / Keith Douglass Warner -- 7. Saint Thomas Aquinas, the Thomistic tradition, and the cosmic common good / Daniel P. Scheid -- Part IV. Fundamental moral theology -- 8. Living the natural moral law and respecting the ecological good / Nicanor Pier Giorgio Austriaco -- 9. The environment within: virtue ethics / Nancy M. Rourke -- 10. Toward a eucharistic ecology / Stephen B. Wilson -- 11. Neighbor to nature / Marcus Mescher -- Part V. Social ethics -- 12. Catholic social teaching and creation / Christopher P. Vogt -- 13. God, creation, and the environment: feminist theological perspectives / Kari-Shane Davis Zimmerman -- 14. Green solidarity: liberation theology, the ecological crisis, and the poor / Kathryn Lilla Cox -- Part VI. Insights from other religions -- 15. Judaism and the care for God's creation / Hava Tirosh-Samuelson -- 16. Greater than the creation of mankind (Qur'an 40:57): creation as the divine signature in Qur'anic and Sufi revelation / June-Ann Greeley -- 17. Why does the Buddha close his eyes in my Eden?: a Buddhist ecological challenge and invitation to Christians / David Clairmont -- Part VII. Issues and applications -- 18. Toward a just way of eating / Julie Hanlon Rubio -- 19. Theology H b2 sO: the world water crisis and sacramental imagination / Mark J. Allman -- 20. No peace on earth: war and the environment / Matthew A. Shadle -- Conclusion. "Go forth in peace to love and serve the Lord" / Tobias Winright -- Appendix. From the reference librarian: a practical guide to doing research / Ronald Crown.