When Enough is Enough

A Christian framework for environmental sustainability* Is our God too small? * Do we truly acknowledge the biblical God, who is Creator and Sustainer as well as Redeemer – a much bigger God than the one who cares merely about me and my personal faith and behaviour? * Do we really love our neighbours – the powerless one in a less developed country as well as our friend next door? * And what about our own family: are we stealing from our children and their children – damaging the only world we have through global climate change, never mind polluting our neighbours' environment, using up non-renewable resources like fossil fuel, indulging in industrial and agricultural practices that permanently harm land and water?* We want to 'make poverty history' – but are we squandering so much capital that we are making this impossible?

This book offers a Christian approach to living now in the expectation that tomorrow will come – a Christian framework for sustainable development, written by some of the world's experts on the subject. The contributions are* 1. Sustainability: God's way or greenwash?--R. J. Berry* 2. Towards a theology of sustainability--Dave Bookless * 3. The challenge of sustainability--John Houghton* 4. Thoughts on the sustainability of the non-human world*--Ghillean T. Prance* * 5. Consumption and happiness: Christian values and an approach towards sustainability*--Brian Heap* and Flavio Comim* 6. Sustainable economics*--Donald Hay** 7. A framework for sustainable agriculture*--John Wibberley* * 8. Let justice roll down like a never-ending stream*--Joanne Green** 9. Sustainability, resources and waste*--David Stafford* and John Bryant* 10. Creative harmony: Isaiah's vision of a sustainable future*--Margot R. Hodson*

a guidebook for living in such a way that we will be better able to give a positive account for our treatment of the talents entrusted to us, when we face the divine Judge of all the earth.
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"This book offers a Christian approach to living now in the expectation that tomorrow will come - a Christian framework for sustainable development, written by some of the world's experts on the subject. It is a guidebook for living in such a way that we will be better able to give a positive account for our treatment of the talents entrusted to us, when we face the divine Judge of all the earth."--BOOK JACKET.