Includes bibliographical references and index.

Poetic reflection: Materfamilias / Luci Shaw -- From Shenandoah to the Mountain West / Holmes Rolston III -- Crossing Lehigh Gap : discerning Christian contributions and misdirection in wilderness preservation / Susan Power Bratton -- Beholding earth through the eye of its maker / Calvin B. DeWitt -- Prophets and poets : the capture of the creative vision / Luci Shaw -- A Table and a planet : from hearthkeeping to earthkeeping / Mary Ruth Wilkinson and Loren Wilkinson -- Poetic reflection: In the garden / Todd Davis -- Poetic reflection: Disarm Laura / Kathryn Dvořák -- When good Christians destroy the earth : the virtue of limits and the limits of virtue / Jonathan A. Moo -- "Ecoflourishing" and story : fantasy, science fiction and hope / Loren Wilkinson -- 'I all-creation sing' : Christina Rossetti's Cosmic liturgy and challenge to anthropocentrism / Joshua King -- John Muir, deep time, and the hope of ecoflourishing / Michael Kunz -- Poetic reflection: Homes for prayer / Laura Kathryn Dvořák -- Poetic reflection: Humphrey's Basin / Paul Willis -- Subverting metaphor, transforming identity : an eco-anthropological analysis of Job's shift from ruler to member of the creation community / Alexander W. Breitkopf -- Paul, generosity, and ecological flourishing / Julien C. H. Smith -- Ecoflourishing : life, death and natural disasters / Robert S. White -- Poetic reflection: San Rafael Mountain / Paul Willis -- Poetic reflection: A common sight / Pattiann Rogers -- Interdisciplinary voices of the ecoflourishing 'glocal' dialogue from non-Western cultural and literary perspectives / Graciela Susana Boruszko -- Becoming citizens of the biosphere : character, ecoflourishing, and control in our newfound common home / Calvin B. DeWitt -- Becoming human, intercultural, and inter-creational : movements toward achieving ecoflourishing / Anthony Le Duc -- Poetic reflection: The family is all there is / Pattiann Rogers -- Poetic reflection: Still life / George David Clark -- Primary encounters : relational ontology and ecoflourishing / Amy E. Smallwood -- Toward a Christian ecological philosophy of work / Karl Clifton-Soderstrom -- Fairy tales and true stories : economic talk for ecological flourishing / Kathryn D. Blanchard -- Poetic reflection: Shiversong / George David Clark -- Poetic reflection: Garden / Micheal O'Siadhail -- The Christian ethics of waste, contaminants, and emerging pollutants in marine ecosystems / Susan Power Bratton -- Reconciling the food chain with the great chain of being : a philosopher's reflection on raising sheep for meat / Gregory S. Poore -- Justice, biocentrism, and white supremacy : John Muir's romantic Christian ethics / Russell C. Powell -- The virtue of intersectionality in environmental ethics / Kevin J. O'Brien -- Poetic reflection: Forebears / Micheal O'Siadhail.

"This book brings together the interdisciplinary reflections of Christian scholars and poets, to explore how ecological virtues can foster the flourishing of our home planet in the face of unprecedented environmental change and devastation. Its central questions are: What virtues are needed for us to be better caretakers of our home planet? What vices must we extinguish if we are to flourish on the earth? What is the connection between such virtues and vices and the flourishing of all creatures? Each contribution offers insight on ecological virtue-ethical questions through disciplinary lenses ranging from biology, geology and economics, to literature, theology, and philosophy. The chapters feature the legacy and lessons of senior scholars reflecting on a lifetime of earthkeeping work, highlight global concerns and perspectives, and include compelling poetic reflections. Focusing on the way in which human vices and virtues drive so many of our ecological problems and solutions, the volume engages timely issues of environmental importance-such as environmental racism, interfaith dialogue, ecological philosophies of work and economics, marine pollution, ecological despair, hope and humility-encouraging fresh reflection and action. It will be of interest to those working in theology and religious studies, philosophy, ethics, and environmental studies"--

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