Table of Contents

Forming the Saeculum: The Desacralization of Nature and the Ability to Understand it in Augustine's Literal Commentary on Genesis - Stanley Rosenberg
Plenty, Portents and Plague: Ecclesiastical Readings of the Natural World in EArly Medieval Europe - Sarah Foot
A Saint and the Natural World: A Motif of Obedience in three early Anglo-Saxon Saints' Lives - Olga Gusakova
Bless, O Lord, this fruit of the new trees: Liturgy and Nature in England in the Central Middle Ages - Tamsin Rowe
God's Bounty, Pauperes and the Crusades of 1096 and 1147 - Conor Kostick
Birds, Beasts and Becket: Falconry and Hawking in the Lives and Miracles of St Thomas Becket - Gesine Oppitz-Trotman
Cathars and the Natural World - Peter Biller
Subiaco - Innocent III's Version of Elijah's Cave - Brenda H. Bolton
Payback Time? Tithes and Tithing in Late Medieval England - Robert N Swanson
Devotion, Popular Belief and Sympathetic Magic among Renaissance Italian Women: The Rose of Jericho as Birthing Aid - Suzy Knight
What did Natural History have to do with Salvation? Jose de Acosta SJ (1540-1600) in the Americas - Simon Ditchfield
Footprints and Faith: Religion and the Landscape in Early Modern Britain and Ireland - Alexandra M Walsham
Nature, Music and the Reformation in England - Jonathan Willis
The 'wonders in the deep' and the 'mighty tempest of the sea': Nature, Providence and the English Seafarers' Piety, c1580-1640 - Sarah Parsons
The Sea and Souls: Maritime Votice Practices in Counter-Reformation Brittany, 1500-1750 - Elizabeth Tingle
Devotional Landscapes: God, Saints and the Natural World in Early Modern Ireland - Raymond Gillespie
Nature's Scourges: The Natural World and Special Prayers, Fasts and Thanksgivings, 1541-1866 - Alasdair Raffe
'The miraculous mathematics of the world': Proving the Existence of God in Cardinal Peter Pazmany's Kalauz - Tadhg O Hannrachain
'God hath put such secretes in nature': The Reformed Kirk, Church-Building and the Religious Landscape in Early Modern Scotland - Andrew Spicer
Nature, History and the Search for Order: The Boyle Lectures, 1730-1785 - Robert G. Ingram
Australian Anglican Clergymen, Science and Religion, 1820-1850 - Michael Gladwin
The Mountain and the Flower: The Power and Potential of Nature in the World of Victorian Evangelicalism - Mark Smith
Frances Ridley Havergal's Theology of Nature - Andrew Atherstone
Darwin's Church - Paul White
William Paley, Samuel Wilberforce, Charles Darwin and the Natural World: An Anglican Conversation - Keith A. Francis
Nature and Modernity: J.C. Atkinson and Rural Ministry in England, c. 1850-1900 (Presidential Address) - W J Sheils
Heavens on Earth: Christian Utopias in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century America - Chris Clark
Methodism, Science and the Natural World: Some Tensions in the Thought of Herbert Butterfield - Michael Bentley
Which Nature? Whose Justice? Shifting Meanings of Nature in Recent Ecotheology - Peter Manley Scott

About the Author

Peter Biller is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at the University of York.

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The range of essays is extremely broad in subject, chronology, geography and method. [...] This volume will appeal especially to ecclesiastical and environmental historians. [It] is an excellently produced volume.
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A sound, complete and comprehensive collection of scholarly thoughts, God's Bounty is a core addition to any Christian studies collection.
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