‘Come, let us join our cheerful songs’, Isaac Watts (1674–1748).
Chapter 1
Transaction Publishers, 1955, p. 16.
Chapter 2
For more information on the Keswick Convention, the most recent and resourceful history is: Ian M. Randall and Charles Price, Transforming Keswick: The Keswick Convention, Past, Present and Future (Paternoster Press, 2000).
Michael Ramsay, Images Old and New (SPCK, 1963), p. 14.
Lutterworth Press, 1972.
Chapter 3
Hodder & Stoughton, 3rd edition, 2005.
Chapter 4
IVP, 2000.
IVP, 1984.
Adapted with permission from my Foreword to The Care of Creation. Two useful recent books on the subject are R. J. Berry (ed.), When Enough is Enough: A Christian Framework for Environmental Sustainability (Apollos, 2007) and Dave Bookless, Planetwise: Dare to Care for God’s World (IVP, 2008).
‘1 billion’ is used in the UK to mean a million millions. But now it is an almost universal cipher for a thousand millions.
Sphere, 1973.
For the contents of this chapter see Chapter 5, ‘Caring for Creation’ in John Stott, Issues Facing Christians Today (Zondervan, 4th edition, 2006), thoroughly updated by Roy McCloughry.
Monarch Books, 2008.
Peter Harris, Under the Bright Wings (Regent College Publishing, 2000); Kingfisher’s Fire (Monarch, 2008).
This and the following quotations are taken from Chris Wright, The Mission of God (IVP, 2008).
Quoted from John Stott, Foreword to The Care of Creation.
Chapter 6
The First Epistle of St Peter (Macmillan, 1961, 2nd edition).
Orval Hobart Mowrer, 1907–82.
Chapter 7
Matthew 6:9–13; Luke 11:2–4.
The Christian Priest Today (SPCK 1972, revised edition 1985), from chapter 11, ‘Divine Humility’, pp. 79–91.
HarperCollins paperback, 1957.
Translated by Edwin Hudson from the French (SCM Press Ltd, 1972), pp. 11, 40, 43.
Chapter 8
Alice E. Mace (ed.), The Birds Around Us (Ortho Books, 1986). From the introductory chapter by Roger Tory Peterson entitled ‘The Joy of Birds’, pp. 19–20.
William Zinsser, ‘A Field Guide to Roger Tory Peterson’ in Audubon vol. 94, No. 6, p. 93.
First published in English in 1948 (SCM Press).
D. M. Lloyd-Jones, Romans 6: The New Man (Banner of Truth, 1992), his comment on verse 19, p. 264.
Douglas Webster, Yes to Mission (SCM, 1966), pp. 101–102.
Operation World estimates a figure of 69.2 million for Christian church members in China, but adds that accurate statistics are not available. See Patrick Johnstone and Jason Mandryk, Operation World (Paternoster, 2001), p. 160.
Tony Lambert, The Resurrection of the Chinese Church (Hodder, 1991), pp. 174 and 267.
Paul Marshall with Lela Gilbert, Their Blood Cries Out (W. Publishing Group, Thomas Nelson, 1997), p. 8.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, from the Foreword to Letters and Papers from Prison (Fontana, 1959), p. 11.
From an article in Esquire, 1977. And in Graham McCann, Woody Allen, New Yorker (Polity Press, 1990), pp. 43 and 83.
Ronald Dworkin, Life’s Dominion (HarperCollins, 1993), p. 199.
