Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction: creation as grace of radical dependence / Philip J. Rossi -- Part I: Discerning God in and through creation. Godhead or godahead? : rethinking the Trinity in light of emergence / Ilia Delio -- The hermeneutic sacramentality of Augustine : learning to contemplate the invisible reality of God in the visible creation / Timothy Patrick O'Malley, II -- Generative tension between "God" and "earth" in Mary Oliver's Thirst / Paul T. Corrigan -- Nature and grace in the theology of John Hugo / Benjamin Peters -- Creation and new creation in the Hebrew Bible and early Jewish literature / Todd R. Hanneken -- Part II: God's action. Creation as original grace / David B. Burrell -- Breath, blood, and the spirit of God : the kenotic cost of giving life / Jane E. Linahan -- Exploring how God acts / Denis Edwards -- Resurrection of the body and ecology : eschatology, cosmic redemption, and a retrieval of the bodily assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary / Aurelie A. Hagstrom -- Dynamical similarity and the problem of evil / Brad J. Kallenberg -- Part III: Living the grace of God's creation. Prefiguring the salvation of the world : the Eucharist and agriculture / Matthew Philipp Whelan -- Blessing fields and repelling grasshoppers : rogation days in American Catholic rural life / Sharon K. Perkins -- God, grace, and creation : shaping a Catholic environmental virtue ethic / Nancy M. Rourke -- Reframing the issues : an ecofeminist political theology / Gretchen M. Baumgardt -- Martyrdom and the good of creation : the case of Dorothy Stang / John Thiede.