• 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. 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.

The contributors are R. J. (Sam) Berry, Dave Bookless, John Bryant, Flavio Comim, Joanne Green , Donald Hay, Sir Brian Heap, Margot Hodson, Sir John Houghton, Sir Ghillean Prance, David Stafford and John Wibberley.

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Editor

Sam Berry is a past president of Christians in Science and currently chairs the Environmental Issues Network of Churches Together in Britain and Ireland. He was Professor of Genetics at University College London, 1978–2000. He is the author of God and Evolution, God and the Biologist and God's Book of Works, and editor of Environmental Dilemmas, The Care of Creation and Environmental Stewardship.

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