Susan Power Bratton is Professor of Environmental Studies at Baylor University and the author of Christianity, Wilderness, and Wildlife: The Original Desert Solitaire and Six Billion and More: Human Population Regulation and Christian Ethics.

"Susan Power Bratton makes a critical contribution to the question of the impact of Christianity on culture, particularly in regard to the relation of Christianity to views of the natural world. In environmental studies it has been almost dogma that Christianity brought a transcendent God outside of nature and a hostility to nature. Bratton brilliantly refutes this thesis and reveals the inclusion of nature in the vision of Christian redemption." — Rosemary Radford Ruether, author of Gaia and God: An Ecofeminist Theology of Earth Healing

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgements1. Environmental Values in Christian Art2. The Good Shepherd and His Dog: Nature in the Earliest Christian Art3. Cosmos without a Crucifix: Basilicas in Rome and Ravenna4. Irish Creation from High Crosses to the Book of Kells 5. Urbanization and the End of Animal Sacrifice6. Medieval Transitions: A Dying Creator and the Hybridization of Hell7. The Transcendent Gothic: Glorious Light, Green Cross8. Gothic Perspectives on Feudalism, Urbanization, Peasants, and Poverty9. Gothic Naturalism, Christian Dualism, and Environmental Racism10. Renaissance Realism: The Virgin’s Meadow11. The Reformers: The Creator in Rustic Landscapes12. God’s Body and Blood as Bread and WineNotesIndex

Susan Power Bratton is Professor of Environmental Studies at Baylor University and the author of Christianity, Wilderness, and Wildlife: The Original Desert Solitaire and Six Billion and More: Human Population Regulation and Christian Ethics.

"Susan Power Bratton makes a critical contribution to the question of the impact of Christianity on culture, particularly in regard to the relation of Christianity to views of the natural world. In environmental studies it has been almost dogma that Christianity brought a transcendent God outside of nature and a hostility to nature. Bratton brilliantly refutes this thesis and reveals the inclusion of nature in the vision of Christian redemption." — Rosemary Radford Ruether, author of Gaia and God: An Ecofeminist Theology of Earth Healing

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgements1. Environmental Values in Christian Art2. The Good Shepherd and His Dog: Nature in the Earliest Christian Art3. Cosmos without a Crucifix: Basilicas in Rome and Ravenna4. Irish Creation from High Crosses to the Book of Kells 5. Urbanization and the End of Animal Sacrifice6. Medieval Transitions: A Dying Creator and the Hybridization of Hell7. The Transcendent Gothic: Glorious Light, Green Cross8. Gothic Perspectives on Feudalism, Urbanization, Peasants, and Poverty9. Gothic Naturalism, Christian Dualism, and Environmental Racism10. Renaissance Realism: The Virgin’s Meadow11. The Reformers: The Creator in Rustic Landscapes12. God’s Body and Blood as Bread and WineNotesIndex

Susan Power Bratton is Professor of Environmental Studies at Baylor University and the author of Christianity, Wilderness, and Wildlife: The Original Desert Solitaire and Six Billion and More: Human Population Regulation and Christian Ethics.

"Susan Power Bratton makes a critical contribution to the question of the impact of Christianity on culture, particularly in regard to the relation of Christianity to views of the natural world. In environmental studies it has been almost dogma that Christianity brought a transcendent God outside of nature and a hostility to nature. Bratton brilliantly refutes this thesis and reveals the inclusion of nature in the vision of Christian redemption." — Rosemary Radford Ruether, author of Gaia and God: An Ecofeminist Theology of Earth Healing

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgements1. Environmental Values in Christian Art2. The Good Shepherd and His Dog: Nature in the Earliest Christian Art3. Cosmos without a Crucifix: Basilicas in Rome and Ravenna4. Irish Creation from High Crosses to the Book of Kells 5. Urbanization and the End of Animal Sacrifice6. Medieval Transitions: A Dying Creator and the Hybridization of Hell7. The Transcendent Gothic: Glorious Light, Green Cross8. Gothic Perspectives on Feudalism, Urbanization, Peasants, and Poverty9. Gothic Naturalism, Christian Dualism, and Environmental Racism10. Renaissance Realism: The Virgin’s Meadow11. The Reformers: The Creator in Rustic Landscapes12. God’s Body and Blood as Bread and WineNotesIndex