These 15 books offer theological insight, ethical reflection, and practical guidance for Christians exploring creation care. Spanning topics such as stewardship, environmental ethics, and ecological science, they include both Christian and non-Christian perspectives to deepen understanding. Readers are encouraged to keep Scripture as their foundation, shaping a biblically rooted engagement with the world.
*Books are listed in alphabetical order by author’s last name; order does not indicate ranking.
The Green Bible Devotional: A Book of Daily Readings
Author: Harper One (publisher)
Themes: Scripture, Creation Care
The Green Bible Devotional highlights over 1,000 Bible verses related to caring for creation, guiding readers through sixty daily readings focused on environmental stewardship. Organized around themes like water, air, land, animals, humanity, and overall stewardship, each reading includes scripture, a meditation, and a prayer. Designed for Christians seeking to understand their role in protecting the earth, it offers a biblically grounded, hopeful approach to living sustainably.
Environmental Ethics: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Robin Attfield
Themes: Ethics, Ecology, Stewardship
Environmental Ethics provides a concise introduction to environmental ethics, exploring the values and principles guiding our response to challenges like pollution, habitat loss, and climate change. It examines diverse ethical approaches, from Deep Ecology to religious and indigenous perspectives, emphasizing the importance of sustainable production, conservation, and responsible decision-making for future generations. The book underscores that ethical stewardship of the environment is a shared responsibility, requiring thoughtful action from individuals, communities, and governments alike.
Author: Richard Bauckham
Themes: Ecology, Stewardship
Richard Bauckham offers a biblical exploration of humanity’s relationship with creation, challenging narrow interpretations of “dominion” that have justified exploitation and instead highlighting the Bible’s rich ecological vision. He presents a “community of creation” in which humans are fellow creatures, making The Bible and Ecology an essential, accessible resource for a biblically grounded approach to environmental care.
Author: Richard Bauckham
Themes: Creation Care, Stewardship
Richard Bauckham presents a fresh and theologically rich vision of humanity’s responsibility to steward creation faithfully before God. Drawing on Scripture alongside voices like Francis of Assisi, modern poetry, and the history of interpretation, Living With Other Creatures shows that the Bible has far more to say about contemporary ecological concerns than is often assumed.
The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
Author: Wendell Berry
Themes: Sustainability, Community
The Unsettling of America argues that industrial farming has created a cultural and spiritual estrangement from the land. He emphasizes that good farming is a discipline rooted in care, community, and connection to the earth—values undermined by modern agribusiness. Berry’s insights, as relevant today as when first published, call for a renewed commitment to cultivating a meaningful and sustainable relationship with the land.
Planetwise: Dare To Care For God’s World
Author: Dave Bookless
Themes: Christian Creation Care, Stewardship
In Planetwise, Dave Bookless makes a compelling biblical case for caring for God’s creation, showing that even small efforts can play a meaningful role in His plan. The book emphasizes hope and practical action rather than guilt, encouraging readers to live simply and joyfully. Through personal stories from his own family, Bookless illustrates how faithful stewardship can be both spiritually rewarding and an exciting adventure.
Earthkeeping and Character: Exploring a Christian Ecological Virtue Ethic
Author: Steven Bouma-Prediger
Themes: Ethics, Creation Care
Earthkeeping and Character invites readers to rethink their relationship with the natural world through the lens of Christian faith and environmental virtue ethics. It explores the character traits and virtues that enable responsible stewardship and flourishing, showing how ethical reflection can deepen Christian engagement with creation.
The Heavenly Good of Earthly Work
Author: Darrell Codson
Themes: Vocation, Stewardship
Darrell Cosden explores whether ordinary, day-to-day work has lasting value in God’s eternal purposes and how it can be a means of spiritual formation and participation in God’s renewing mission. He argues that the “heavenly good” of earthly work makes the gospel tangible for everyday life, offering a deeply purposeful vision of Christian vocation.
Author: Celia Deane-Drummond
Themes: Theology, Ecology, Creation Care
Eco-Theology offers a comprehensive introduction to eco-theology, examining how religious environmentalism addresses both the causes of ecological crisis and potential paths toward healing. It surveys key global debates and theological responses while encouraging critical reflection through discussion questions and further reading.
Care for Creation: A Franciscan Spirituality of the Earth
Authors: Ilia Delio, Keith Douglass Warner, and Pamela Wood
Themes: Community, Creation Care, Catholic
Care for Creation brings together Franciscan theology and ecological concern to address the urgent crisis facing the Earth through a spiritually rich and practical lens. Grounded in the Franciscan tradition, it explores themes of incarnation, community, contemplation, and conversion, offering prayers, practices, and reflective actions that help readers reconnect with creation and live in right relationship with the earth.
Ecology: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Jaboury Ghazoul
Themes: Science, Ecology, Policy
Ecology: A Very Short Introduction provides a concise introduction to ecology, exploring how organisms interact with each other and their environment to shape the world we live in. It highlights the relevance of ecological science to everyday life, conservation, policy, and culture, showing how understanding these systems can guide responsible environmental stewardship. The book also looks ahead to the future of ecology in addressing ongoing and emerging environmental challenges.
Let Creation Rejoice: Biblical Hope and Ecological Crisis
Authors: Jonathan A. Moo and Robert S. White
Themes: Creation Care, Hope, Stewardship
Let Creation Rejoice explores the tension between biblical hope and modern warnings about climate change, encouraging readers to evaluate environmental concerns without resorting to fear or apocalyptic rhetoric. While recognizing the seriousness of today’s ecological crises, it presents a distinctly Christian response grounded in hope, responsibility, and faithful participation in God’s care for creation.
Stewards of Eden: What Scripture Says About the Environment
Author: Sandra L. Ritcher
Themes: Creation Care, Scripture, Stewardship
Stewards of Eden guides readers through both familiar and overlooked biblical passages to reveal how deeply environmental care is woven into Scripture. Combining strong biblical scholarship with real-world case studies, it calls Christians to respond to today’s environmental challenges by grounding stewardship in God’s values rather than political agendas.
The Moral Circle: Who Matters, What Matters, and Why
Author: Jeff Sebo
Themes: Ethics, Environmentalism
The Moral Circle offers a hopeful and expansive vision of ethics, inviting readers to broaden their moral concern to include animals, insects, AI systems, and even microbes. Through thoughtful case studies and forward-looking questions, it explores how a more inclusive moral framework can guide responsible living in a technologically and ecologically interconnected world.
Serve God, Save the Planet: A Christian Call to Action
Author: Matthew Sleeth
Themes: Faith, Stewardship, Worship
In Serve God, Save the Planet, Dr. J. Matthew Sleeth shares how his family traded a materialistic lifestyle for one rooted in simplicity, stewardship, and faith. Drawing on both science and Scripture, he shows how personal responsibility and creation care can lead to healthier lives, stronger relationships, and deeper spiritual fulfillment. The book offers practical guidance for Christians seeking to love God by caring for His planet.
Edited by Drew S. McGinley