

Robert Davies is the Associate Professor of Professional Practice, Department of Physics at Utah State University. His work focuses on global environmental change, sustainable human systems, and scientific storytelling ― for critically important stories. As a physicist his training has been in atmospheric physics, surface physics, and quantum optics. His published scientific works are in the fields of spacecraft interactions with the space environment; the fundamental nature of light and information; and Earth’s climate system.
He is a leader in the Crossroads Project which fuses original music with art, imagery, and science to create live performance experiences that address global sustainability and provide a path toward meaningful response.
Scholarly Articles
Berry, Wendell. 2002. Christianity and the Survival of Creation. In The Art of the Commonplace. Edited by Norman Wirzba. Berkeley: Counterpoint, pp. 305–20. [Google Scholar]
DeWitt, Calvin B. 2000. Creation’s Environmental Challenge to Evangelical Christianity. In The Care of Creation: Focusing Concern and Action. Edited by R. J. Berry. Leicester: InterVarsity, pp. 60–73. [Google Scholar]
Habel, Norman C. 2008. Introducing Ecological Hermeneutics. In Exploring Ecological Hermeneutics. Edited by Norman C. Habel and Peter Trudinger. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, pp. 1–8. [Google Scholar]
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Pope Francis. On Care For Our Common Home. Encylical Letter “Laudato Si’ of the Holy Father Francis. Retrieved on January 8, 2020 from http://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20150524_enciclica-laudato-si.html
Richter, Sandy. 2020. Stewards of Eden
Rossing, Barbara. 2010. God Laments with Us: Climate Change, Apocalypse and the Urgent Kairos Moment. Ecumenical Review 62: 119–30. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
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Books
Bahnson, Fred and Wirzba, Norman. 2012. Making Peace With The Land: God’s Call to Reconcile with Creation. Downers Grove, Illinois: IVP Books
Bauckham, Richard. 2010. The Bible and Ecology: Rediscovering the Community of Creation. Waco: Baylor University Press. [Google Scholar]
Bauckham, Richard. 2011. Living with Other Creatures: Green Exegesis and Theology. Waco: Baylor University Press. [Google Scholar]
Brinkley, Douglas. 2022. Silent Spring Revolution: John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon and the Great Environmental Awakening. New York: HarperCollins.
Davis, Ellen F. 2009. Scripture, Culture and Agriculture: An Agrarian Reading of the Bible. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Google Scholar]
Fretheim, Terence. 2005. God and World in the Old Testament: A Relational Theology of Creation. Nashville: Abingdon. [Google Scholar]
Grover, Sami. 2021. We’re All Hypocrites Now: How Embracing Our Limitations Can Unlock the Power of a Movement. British Columbia, Canada: New Society Publishers.
Habel, Norman C. 2001. The Earth Story in the Psalms and Prophets. The Earth Bible Series 4; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press. [Google Scholar]
Habel, Norman C. 2009. An Inconvenient Text: Is A Green Reading of the Bible Possible. Adalaide: ATF Press. [Google Scholar]
Hessel, Dieter T., and Rosemary Radford Ruether, eds. 2000. Christianity and Ecology: Seeking the Well-Being of Earth and Humans. Cambridge: Harvard University Center for the Study of World Religions Publications. [Google Scholar]
Keefe, Bob. 2022. Climatenomics: Washington, Wall Street and the Economic Battle to Save Our Planet. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield.
Law, Jeremy. 2010. Jürgen Moltmann’s Ecological Hermeneutic. In Ecological Hermeneutics: Biblical, Historical and Theological Perspectives. Edited by David G. Horrell, Cherryl Hunt, Christopher Southgate and Francesca Stavrakopoulou. New York: T&T Clark. [Google Scholar]
Leese, J. J. Johnson. 2018. Christ, Creation and the Cosmic Goal of Redemption: A Study of Pauline Creation Theology as Read by Irenaeus and Applied to Ecotheology. New York: T&T Clark. [Google Scholar]
Manning, Russell R., ed. 2013. The Oxford Handbook of Natural Theology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Google Scholar]
Moltmann, Jürgen. 1985. God in Creation: The Gifford Lectures 1984–1985: An Ecological Doctrine of Creation. Translated by M. Kohl. London: SCM. [Google Scholar]
Richter, Sandra. 2020. Stewards of Eden: What Scripture Says About The Environment And Why It Matters. Downers Grove, Illinois: IVP.
Snyder, Howard A., and Joel Scandrett. 2011. Salvation Means Creation Healed: The Ecology of Sin and Grace, Overcoming the Divorce between Earth and Heaven. Eugene: Cascade Books. [Google Scholar]
Southgate, Christopher. 2008. The Groaning of Creation: God, Evolution, and the Problem of Evil. Louisville: Westminster John Knox. [Google Scholar]
The Green Bible. New Revised Standard Version. 2008. New York: HarperCollins.
Wirzba, Norman. 2016. Way of Love: Recovering the Heart of Christianity. New York: HarperCollins.
Wirzba, Norman. 2015. From Nature to Creation: A Christian Vision for Understanding and Loving Our World. The Church and Modern Culture. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic. [Google Scholar]
