The following books are helpful in understanding Christian liturgy as it relates to God's creation.
Norman Habel, David Rhoads, and Paul Santmire, The Season of Creation: A Preacher's Commentary (Fortress Press, 2011) As the global climate crisis worsens, many churches have sought to respond by instituting a movement to observe a liturgical season of creation. Scholars who have pioneered the connections between biblical scholarship, ecological theology, liturgy, and homiletics provide here a comprehensive resource for preaching and leading worship in this new season. Included are theological and practical introductions to observance of the season, biblical texts for twelve Sundays in the three-year lectionary cycle, and astute commentary to help preachers and worship leaders guide their congregations into deeper connection with our imperiled planet. Available from Augsburg Fortress.
Jennifer Philips, Preaching Creation Through the Church Year (2000)
Gordon Lathrop, Holy Ground: A Liturgical Cosmology (Fortress Press, 2003) Holy Ground illumines how the central symbols and interactions of Christian liturgy yield a new understanding and experience of the world and contribute to a refreshed sense of ecological ethics - a Christian sense of the holiness of the earth itself. Available from Augsburg Fortress.
Paul Santmire, Ritualizing Nature: Renewing Christian Liturgy in a Time of Crisis (Fortress Press, 2008) Is the Christian faith ecologically bankrupt? Theologian H. Paul Santmire has responded forcefully to that frequently voiced question by maintaining that, notwithstanding ambiguities, a single Christian tradition of long standing has something profoundly promising to say about nature and human life in nature. Available from Augsburg Fortress.
Ben Stewart, A Watered Garden: Christian Worship and Earth's Ecology (Fortress Press, 2011) Watered Garden begins with the classic, ecumenically held patterns of Christian worship and explores them for their deep connections to ecological wisdom, for their sacramental approaches to creation, and for a renewed relationship to the earth now itself in need of God's healing. This book is written especially for North Americans: people who live in a specific ecological region, and who play a particular role in the world's ecology. And of course it is written for Christians, especially those who are part of the Lutheran movement. Available from Augsburg Fortress.
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