Course Bibliography

Required Textbooks

These texts are available from the bookstore.

• Bouma-Prediger, Steven, For the Beauty of the Earth: A Christian Vision for Creation Care, Baker, 2001, ISBN 0801022983.
• Defoe, Daniel, Robinson Crusoe, Norton Critical Editions, 2nd ed., Ed. M. Shinagel, W. W. Norton & Company, 1994 [1719], ISBN 039396423.
• Kinsley, David R., Ecology and Religion: Ecological Spirituality in Cross-Cultural Perspective, Prentice Hall, 1994, ISBN 0131385127.
• Light, Andrew, and Holmes Rolston III, Environmental Ethics: An Anthology, Blackwell Publishing, 2002, ISBN 0631222944.

Additional Required Readings

These readings are available online. See the Schedule for links to the articles.

• Alley, Richard, et al., Summary for policymakers, Climate Change 2007: The Physics Science Basis, Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Feb 2, 2007.
• An Urgent Call to Action: Scientists and Evangelicals Unite to Protect Creation, http://chge.med.harvard.edu/media/releases/documents/call_to_action.pdf (accessed Jan 18, 2007).
• Climate Change: An Evangelical Call to Action, http://www.christiansandclimate.org/statement (accessed Jan 18, 2007).
• Derr, Thomas S., Strange science, First Things, No. 147, November 2004, pp. 5–7.
• Evangelical Environmental Network & Creation Care Magazine, Scripture Resources, http://www.creationcare.org/resources/scripture.php (accessed Jan 29, 2007).
• Hoffert, Martin I., et al., Advanced technology paths to global climate stability: Energy for a greenhouse planet, Science, Vol. 298, Iss. 5595, November 1, 2002, p. 981.
• Houghton, John T., et al. (Eds.), Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis: Contribution of Working Group I to the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Cambridge University Press, 2001, ISBN 0521014956.
• Interfaith Stewardship Alliance, Cornwall Declaration, http://www.interfaithstewardship.org/pages/cornwall.php, 2005.
• Karl, Thomas R., and Kevin E. Trenberth, What is climate change? Climate Change and Biodiversity, Eds. T. E. Lovejoy & L. Hannah, Yale University Press, 2005, ISBN 0300119801, pp. 15–28.
• Lindzen, Richard S., Don't believe the hype, OpinionJournal, July 2, 2006.
• Lomborg, Bjørn, The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World, Cambridge University Press, 2001, ISBN 0521010683.
• Metz, Bert, et al. (Eds.), Climate Change 2001: Mitigation: Contribution of Working Group III to the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Cambridge University Press, 2001, ISBN 0521807697.
• On the Care of Creation An Evangelical Declaration on the Care of Creation, http://www.creationcare.org/resources/declaration.php (accessed Jan 18, 2007).
• Oreskes, Naomi, Science and public policy: What's proof got to do with it? Environmental Science & Policy, Vol. 7, 2004, pp. 369–383.
• Pittock, A. Barrie, Are scientists underestimating climate change? Eos, Vol. 87, No. 34, August 22, 2006, p. 340.
• Sarewitz, Daniel, How science makes environmental controversies worse, Environmental Science & Policy, Vol. 7, 2004, pp. 385–403.
• Sarewitz, Daniel, and Roger A. Pielke, Jr., Breaking the global-warming gridlock, The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 286, No. 1, 2000, pp. 55–64.
• Schmandt, Jurgen, and James E. Katz, The scientific state, Science, Technology, & Human Values, Vol. 11, No. 1., Winter 1986, pp. 40–52.

Optional Readings

These readings are found online or in the "Optional Readings" reader on reserve in the library.

• Cronon, William, Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West, W. W. Norton & Company, 1992, ISBN 0393308731.
• Emerson, Ralph W., Nature, Ed. Jim Manley, http://www.rwe.org/works/Essays-2nd_Series_6_Nature.htm (accessed Feb 5, 2007).
• Olthuis, James H., On worldviews, Christian Scholars Review, Vol. 14, No. 2, 1985, pp. 153–64 (Online at: http://www.gospel-culture.org.uk/olthuis.htm).
• Orr, David W., Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect, 2nd ed., Island Press, 2004, ISBN 1559634952.
• Paley, William, Natural Theology, Ed. Gary Varner, Paley's formulation of the teleological argument, http://philosophy.tamu.edu/~gary/intro/paper.paley.html (accessed Feb 5, 2007).
• Sagan, Carl, Croesus and Cassandra: Policy response to global warming, American Journal of Physics, Vol. 58, No. 8, August 1990, pp. 721–730.
• Von Storch, Hans, and Nico Stehr, Exaggerated science: How global warming research is creating a climate of fear, Spiegel Magazine, January 24, 2005.