1st Edition
Christian Environmentalism and Human Responsibility in the 21st Century Questions of Stewardship and Accountability
1. Introduction: Christian Environmentalism and Human Responsibility
Katherine M. Quinsey and George Piggford, C.S.C.
2. The Practice of Lavishing Attention
Liane Miedema Brown
3. An Ecocritical Reading of Jesus of the Deep Forest
Susan VanZanten
4. Waves and Refugees: Water Metaphors and Epistemological Humility in Thi Bui’s The Best We Could Do
Erin Goheen Glanville
5. Poems by John Terpstra (I)
“Ceremony”
“Invasive Species”
“Acknowledgment Close to the Ground”
6. ‘Outrage from lifeless things’: Theodicy and the Anthropogenic Effects of the Fall in Paradise Lost
Ben Faber
7. Early Modern Reformed Theology and Nonhuman Animals
Katherine M. Quinsey
8. Bandits
John Van Rys
9. Paragon of Animals: An Afterword to “Bandits”
John Van Rys
10. From Grass to Galaxy: Alice Meynell’s Poetic Wayfaring in the Meshwork of the World
Karen Dieleman
11. Flannery O’Connor’s Integral Ecology
George Piggford, C.S.C.
12. “Can you make this all run again?” The Art and Environmentalism of Margo and Rein Vanderhill
Samuel Martin
13. Environments of Grace: Reflections on Sacramental Reality in the Work of Bruce Cockburn and David Adams Richards
Norm Klassen
14. Poems by John Terpstra (II)
“Giants”
“A Brief History of Settlement on Hamilton Mountain, from 1789”
“The Once and Future Creek”
15. Birding, Fiction, and Margaret Atwood’s Cultivation of Ecological Awareness
Tina Trigg
16. “I just can’t get enough of this place”: The Gifts and Complications of John Terpstra’s Love of Hamilton
Matthew Zantingh
17. Can We Hear What the Land Is Saying? The Haudenosaunee Two Row Wampum and Via Negativa as Postures for Listening
Daniel Coleman
18. To Dwell Ecologically: The Practice of Re-enchantment
Douglas Sikkema
Afterword
Deborah Bowen
Biography
Katherine M. Quinsey is Professor Emerita in the English Department at the University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
