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°      Adams, Fred. 2002. Origins of Existence: How Life Emerged in the Universe.New York: The Free Press.

°      Barbour, Ian G. 1997. Religion and Science: Historical and Contemporary Issues. New York: HarperSanFrancisco.

°      Berry, Thomas. 1988. The Dream of the Earth. San Francisco: Sierra Club.

°      Berry, Thomas. 1991. Twelve Principles: For Understanding the Universe and the Role of the Human in the Universe Process. Thomas Berry and the New Cosmology. Eds. Anne Lonergan and Caroline Richards. Mystic, Connecticut: Twenty-Third Publications.

°      Capra, Fritjof. 2000. The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the parallels between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism. Boston: Shambhala.

°      Deen, Mawil Y. Izzi. 2005. Islamic Environmental Ethics, Law, and Society. Environmental Ethics: Readings in Theory and Applications. Ed. By Louis P. Pojman. Thomson Wadsworth. Originally appeared in Ethics of Environment. Ed. J. Ronald Engel and Joan Gibb Engel. London: Bellhaven Press. 1990.

°      Delio, Ilia, Keith Douglass Warner, Pamela Wood. 2008. Care for Creation: A Franciscan spirituality of the Earth. Cincinnati, Ohio: St. Anthony Messenger Press.

°      Dennis, Marie, Joseph Nangle, CynthisMoe-Lobeda, Stuart Taylor.1993. St.Francisand the Foolishness of God.New York: Orbis Books.

°      Doyle, Eric.1997. St. Francis and the Song of Brotherhood and Sisterhood. Ashland, Ohio: Franciscan Institute Publications.

°      Dunn, Stephen G. 1991. Needed: A New Genre for Moral Theology. Thomas Berry and the New Cosmology. Eds. Anne Lonergan and Caroline Richards. Mystic, Connecticut: Twenty-Third Publications.

°      Eldredge, Niles. 2001.The Sixth Extinction. American Institute of Biological Sciences, June, 2001. http://www.actionbioscience.org/newfrontiers/eldredge2.html (accessed November 2005).

°      Fretheim, Terence E. 2005. God and World in the Old Testament: A Relational Theology of Creation. Nashville: Abingdon Press.

°      Glazer, Steven. 1999. The Heart of Learning: Spirituality in Education. Ed. StevenGlazer. New York: Tarcher/Putnam.

°      Harris, Maria, Gabriel Moran. 1998. Reshaping Religious Education: Conversations on Contemporary Practice.Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox Press.

°      Hawking, Stephen W, Leonard Milodinow. 2005. A Briefer History of Time. New York: Bantam Books.

°      Hefner, Philip. 1993. The Human Factor: Evolution, Culture, and Religion. Minneapolis: Fortress Press.

°      Hope, Marjorie, and James Young. 1994. ISLAM and ECOLOGY. Cross Currents, Vol. 44, issue 2, 180-92.

°      Johnson, Elizabeth A. 1996. Does God play dice? Divine Providence and Chance. Theological Studies 57, no. 1 (March 1): 16-18.

°      Murphy, Nancey, George F. R. Ellis.1996. On the Moral Nature of the Universe: Theology, Cosmology, and Ethics. Minneapolis: Fortress Press.

°      Murtagh, Thomas. 2002. St. Francis and Ecology. Franciscan Theology of the Environment.  Dawn M. Nothwehr, ed. Qunicy, IL: Franciscan Press.

°      Nairn, Thomas A. 2002. St. Francis of Assisi’s  Canticle of Creatures as an Exercise of the Moral Imagination. Franciscan Theology of the Environment.  Dawn M. Nothwehr, ed. Qunicy, IL: Franciscan Press.

°      O'Gorman, Kathleen. 2001. Religious Education as an Expression of the Great Work.Association of Professors and Researchers in Religious Education held in Minneapolis, November 2-4,Randy G. LitchfieldG, ed. 55-63.

°      O’Murchu, Diarmuid. 2003. Quantum Theology: Spiritual Implications of the New Physics.New York: A Crossroad Book.

°      Palmer, Parker J. 1999. The Grace of Great Things: Reclaiming the Sacred in Knowing, Teaching, and Learning. The Heart of Learning: Spirituality in Education. Ed. StevenGlazer. New York: Tarcher/Putnam.

°      Peacocke, Arthur. 1993. Theology for a Scientific Age: Being and Becoming--Nature, Divine, and Human. Minneapolis: Fortress Press.

°      Peacocke, Arthur. 2004. Evolution: The disguised Friends of Faith? Selected Essays. Philadelphia: Templeton Foundation Press.

°      Pope John Paul II. 1990. The Ecological Crisis: A Common Responsibility, 1990 World Day of Peace Message, Peace with God—Peace with All Creation.  http://conservation.catholic.org/ecologicalcrisis.htm (accessed March 2006).

°      Rahner, Karl. 1969. The Unity of Spirit and Matter in the Christian Understanding of Faith. Theological Investigation: Volume VI Concerning Vatican Council II. Karl-H., Boniface Kruger, trans. Baltimore: Helicon Press.

°      Rolston III, Holmes. 1988. Environmental Ethics: Duties to and Values in the Natural World. Philadelphia: TempleUniversity Press.

°      Senior, Donald. 1991. The Earth Story: Where Does the Bible Fit In? Thomas Berry and the New Cosmology. Eds. Anne Lonergan and Caroline Richards.Mystic, Connecticut: Twenty-Third Publications.

°      Swimme, Brian, and Thomas Berry. 1992. The Universe Story: From the Primordial Flaring Forth to the Ecozoic Era; A Celebration of the Unfolding of the Cosmos. New York: Harper San Francisco.

°      Swimme, Brian. 1996. The Hidden heart of the Cosmos: Humanity and the New Story. Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books.

°      Teilhard, de Chardin. 1961. Hymn of the Universe. New York: Harper & Row.

°      White, Lynn 1967. See Lynn 2005.

°      White, Lynn. 2005. The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis. Environmental Ethics: Readings in Theory and Applications. Ed. Louis P. Pojman. Thomson Wadsworth. Originally appeared in Science, Vol. 155, pp.1203-1207 (10 March 1967).