Abstract
This is the fourth and final volume of Environmental Theology. In the first two volumes, Austin aims at what is probably most important in the relationship between human beings and creation: that we love the things that God has created. Baptized into Wilderness describes those aspects of John Muir's experiences and writings that are consonant with Christianity, and Beauty of the Land expresses why Christians should "awaken their senses" to an awareness of the beauty of the natural world. In the third volume, Hope for the Land, he reviews a tremendous number of biblical passages to demonstrate that God gave rights to His non-human creation, and that it is not merely raw material for our use. In this volume, Austin presents a vision of how America could be transformed into a country that respects and loves the land as much as God wants it to.