Christianity struggles to show how living on Earth matters for living with God. While people of faith increasingly seek practical ways to respond to the environmental crisis, theology has had difficulty contextualizing the crisis and interpreting the responses. In Ecologies of Grace, Willis Jenkins presents a field-shaping introduction to Christian environmental ethics that offers resources for renewing theology. Observing how religious environmental practices often draw on concepts of grace, Jenkins maps the way Christian environmental strategies draw from traditions of salvation as they engage the problems of environmental ethics.By being particularly sensitive to the ways in which environmental problems are made intelligible to Christian moral experience, Jenkins guides his readers toward a fuller understanding of Christianity and ecology. He not only makes sense of the variety of Christian environmental ethics, but by showing how environmental issues come to the heart of Christian experience, prepares fertile ground for theological renewal.

1. Saving Nature, Saving GracePart I: Ethical Strategies2. Three Practical Strategies in Environmental Ethics3. The Strategy of Ecojustice4. The Strategy of Christian Stewardship5. The Strategy of Ecological SpiritualityPart II: Theological Investigations6. Sanctifying Biodiversity: Ecojustice in Thomas Aquinas7. Environmental Virtues: Charity, Nature, and Divine Friendship in Thomas8. Stewardship after the End of Nature: Karl Barth's Environment of Jesus Christ9. Nature Redeemed: Barth's Garden of Reconciliation10. After Maximus: Ecological Spirituality and Cosmic Deification11. Thinking like a Transfigured Mountain: Sergei Bulgakov's Wisdom Ecology12. Conclusion: Renovating GraceNotesWorks CitedIndex