Wilderness in many parts of the globe is under considerable threat from human development. This has important ramifications not only for fauna and flora but also for human well-being. Wilderness in the Bible addresses this ecological crisis from a biblical and theological perspective. It first establishes the context of a biblical study of wilderness and then passes to an analysis of the attitudes towards in the canonical biblical record. This provides the biblical basis for the development of a theology of wilderness for the twenty-first century. The Australian wilderness is taken as an illuminating case study.

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The Author: Robert Barry Leal received his Ph.D. in French literature from the University of Queensland, Australia, and his Th.D. from the Sydney College of Divinity. He is Professor Emeritus of Macquarie University (Sydney) and of the University of Wollongong (Australia). He has published extensively on modern French literature but has now turned his attention to theology and biblical studies, particularly in the area of ecology.