Okay, you may not have asked. But some members of the American Academy of Religion did. This, in connection with one of the numerous small seminars offered at the 2025 AAR annual meeting, a seminar that focused on my vocation and my theology. I hope that at least a few of my readers who have been encountering my theology on-line for some time now will now also want to dip into one or more of my printed works that may be new to you.
When I was an opinionated kid (of course, at age ninety, I’m still opinionated), I never dreamed that I would be one who would crank out a shelf of books. I didn’t start writing, in any serious way, until my 11th grade social studies teacher pressured me to do it – by making me the editor of the high school newspaper. But, it turned out, I soon discovered that I could do no other, as those who now receive my regular blogs can attest. Should you wish to dip into any of my writings that might be new to you, I would be delighted. Thanks for being one of my readers, in any case!
1970 Brother Earth: Nature, God, and Ecology in a Time of Crisis (Thomas Nelson)
1985 The Travail of Nature: The Ambiguous Ecological Promise of Christian Theology (Fortress)
1987 South African Testament: From Personal Encounter to Theological Challenge (Eerdmans)
2000 Nature Reborn: The Ecological and Cosmic Promise of Christian Theology (Fortress)
2008 Ritualizing Nature: Renewing Christian Liturgy in a Time of Crisis (Fortress)
2014 Before Nature: A Christian Spirituality (Fortress)
2017 Behold the Lilies: Jesus and the Contemplation of Nature – A Primer (Cascade)
2022 EcoActivist Testament: Explorations of Faith and Nature for Fellow Travelers (Cascade)
2024 The Earth and the Fullness Thereof: A Downhome Reader in Ecological Theology (Cascade)
Some Discussions Of My Work
1980: Claude York Stewart, Jr., “Neo-Reformation Theology of Nature: The Approach of H. Paul Santmire,” Nature in Grace: A Study in the Theology of Nature, chap. II (Harvard University doctoral dissertation).
2013: H. Paul Santmire, “Ecology, Justice, Liturgy,” Theologians in Their Own Words, Derek R. Nelson, Joshua M. Moritz, and Ted Peters, eds. (Minneapolis: Fortress Press), 217-232.
2020: Kiara A. Jorgenson, Ecology of Vocation: Recasting Calling in a New Planetary Era (Lexington Books/Fortress Academic), 103-109.
2023: Steven Bouma-Prediger, Creation Care Discipleship: Why Earthkeeping Is an Essential Christian Practice (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic), 103-109.
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