Christian Environmental Stewardship
Rediscovering Place, Practice, and Virtue
- Science & Faith
- Publisher: Eerdmans
- Published: 2026
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Publisher's Description
Science, faith, and storytelling come together in this innovative guide to creation care. What does faithful environmental care look like in practice? This groundbreaking book answers that question by weaving together cutting-edge sustainability science, enduring Christian teaching, and personal accounts of transformative experiences in nature. Coauthored by an ecologist and a theologian who both love the outdoors, Christian Environmental Stewardship offers an innovative framework for person- and place-based stewardship. Through engaging prose enriched with personal stories, the authors highlight the importance of outdoor experiences where people form strong connections with local places and communities—connections that build virtue and lead to meaningful conservation efforts. The book’s rigorous synthesis of science, theology, and storytelling is a welcome alternative to environmental conversations that can seem politically charged, disconnected from faith, or simply remote from lived experience. Readers will discover practical pathways for effecting positive change in their local ecosystems while gaining deeper understanding of their place within creation. Christian Environmental Stewardship is an essential resource for educators and students at faith-based institutions as well as everyday Christians who are passionate about creation care.
Endorsements (3)
“Christian Environmental Stewardship is a timely and deeply rooted invitation to rediscover care for creation not as an optional concern but as a core expression of Christian discipleship. With wisdom, humility, and hope, Shephard and Van Wart offer a compelling vision of how faith, place, and ecological responsibility belong together in a wounded yet beautiful world. This is a must read for all those who care for God’s creation!”
“In this wide-ranging yet accessible volume, Shephard and Van Wart offer a compelling account of environmental stewardship that brings together the best of contemporary science and the Christian intellectual tradition without compromise. Emphasizing the indispensable role of lived experience in nature cultivated within community, they make a persuasive case for a more confident and visible Christian voice in the public conversation on care for creation. More importantly still, they show how to translate this vision into action.”
“The biblical mandate to care for creation could not be clearer, yet many Christians ignore it. Mired in secular political debates, we cannot hear the divine summons to be good stewards of the earth. Nor can we see that our failure to live deliberately and simply is simultaneously a failure to love our neighbor. Deaf to God’s word and blind to our neighbors’ needs, our only hope is an old-fashioned conversion accompanied by an approach to discipleship that includes everything from farming and fishing to hunting and homesteading. That’s a tall order, to say the least. But Shephard and Van Wart are up to the task. All Christians who want to live biblically faithful lives should read this book!”
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