Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-308) and index.

Foreword / Thabo Makgoba -- Introduction / Kapya J. Kaoma -- SECTION 1. GLIMPSES OF HOPE -- Christian mission and earth care: an African case study / Marthinus L. Daneel -- Greening our church and our world: an American Bishop's journey to heal the earth / Bud Cederholm -- Case studies of hope: a rocha in Brazil and elsewhere / Andrea Ramos Santos, Raquel Gon�calves Arouca, G�inia Cesar Bontempo, Carina Oliveira Abreu and Dave Bookless -- Christian mission and earth care: a Norwegian perspective / Per Ivar V�aje -- SECTION 2. EARTH CARE IN CHRISTIAN TRADITIONS -- Historical trends in missions and earth care / Dana L. Robert -- The poor and the sacramental commons: a Roman Catholic perspective / John Hart -- Jesus is Lord... of all? Evangelicals, earth care and the scope of the Gospel / Dave Bookless -- The Missio Spiritus: towards a Pentecostal pneumatological missiology of creation / Amos Yong -- Ecology and mission: some Orthodox theological perspectives / Metropolitan Geevarghese Coorilos -- Missio Dei and eco-justice and earth care: asking hard questions / Norman Faramelli -- The missing link: creation empathy as the foundation of Christian mission / Tellessyn Zawn Grenfell-Lee -- SECTION 3. GREENING MISSIOLOGY - ISSUES AND CHALLENGES -- The care of creation, the Gospel and our mission / Christopher J.H. Wright -- Ecological mission in a globally connected world / Mary Elizabeth Moore -- Sustainability, earth care and Christian mission / Kwok Pui-lan -- Science and religion missionary earth-keeping: our ecological challenge / Rodney L. Petersen -- The Imago Dei and the Mission Dei: caring for creation in the face of African poverty / Hermann Mvula -- Our god is green: a Biblical mission theology of earth care / Tim Carriker -- Mission as priestly mediation for the land: a challenge to African Christianity / Lubunga W'Ehusha -- The earth in the mission of the incarnate God / Kapya J. Kaoma.