“Encountering Ancient Voices makes an invaluable contribution to undergraduate biblical studies, especially for students who are studying the Bible as part of their core curriculum. The book’s format is exceptionally helpful, especially the discussions of biblical passages, but also the charts, sidebars, overviews, and summaries. The writing style is engaging: I find students regularly ‘interacting’ with Carvalho, whom I consider something of a ‘co-teacher’ in the course. I appreciate the range of Carvalho’s discussions, especially on biblical methodologies, themes, or issues, as well as on current issues related to Bible interpretation or to specific texts. This book helped me achieve my best effort ever in teaching this course.”

“Carvalho’s text includes everything I want in terms of content and substantive issues, and it provides wonderful guided readings of numerous biblical texts. Students have been responding very well to it; they appreciate the insight it offers and the things it brings to their attention that they never noticed before. I have used several different texts since I started teaching our new ‘History and Literature of the Old Testament’ course, but I haven’t used the same one for more than one semester. Now I think I have found the book I’m going to stick with!

“Green Discipleship is an exciting text for courses and discussion groups that focus on theology and the environment. Twenty chapters cover such topics as Christian tradition and scripture, moral theology, and social ethics, as well as insights from Judaism, Islam, and Buddhism. The essayists are committed to both their theological disciplines and their ecological concerns. Questions for discussion, a glossary, and a select bibliography are helpful additions, especially for instructors whose expertise is not in these areas. Perhaps the book’’s most useful aid is found in the appendix. Titled ‘From the Reference Librarian: A Practical Guide to Doing Research,”’ it gives the student a step-by-step tutorial in how to conduct further research on topics covered in the text. Because the advice spans a range of research tools (from relevant encyclopedias to online databases of both popular and scholarly articles), this creative guide should give instructors and students confidence in assigning and doing research projects. I hope this book receives the attention it deserves.”

““If you are looking (as I was) for the perfect textbook to teach a Catholic perspective on the environment, buy this book! It is fresh, all-encompassing, accessible, practical, and well-edited. Well-versed in the data of our ecological crisis, they [contributors] offer us their instructive strategies buttressed with the resources of the scriptures and the traditions and animated by a realistic yet hopeful vision. It’’s an empowering project. By the way, if you weren’’t thinking of teaching such a course, buy this book anyway. You’’ll be developing a syllabus on the topic before you get to Winright’’s convincing conclusion.””

“Green Discipleship: Catholic Theological Ethics and the Environment is a wonderful new addition to the growing literature on environmental ethics. Designed as a textbook for undergraduates——with lists of key terms, questions for review, photographs in each chapter, and a glossary, index, and bibliography at the end——this twenty-chapter reader is accessible, engaging, and challenging. Though some chapters are better than others, as is inevitably the case with a collection of writers, throughout the book the research is well-informed and the writing is clear. As the subtitle indicates, this volume focuses on the theological and ethical resources of the Catholic tradition, but the book also includes essays on non-Christian religions as well as chapters on the application of a Catholic ethic to contemporary issues. Many thanks to editor Tobias Winright and his contributors for the gift of this excellent new book. May it find a large readership.”