Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-293) and index.

Beauty, desire for God and delight in creation -- Prologue: Ring Lake Ranch, Wyoming -- The double irony of Reformed spirituality : nature, desire, and the easily diverted quest for God's beauty -- The whole world singing : a journey to Iona and Taiz -̌- John Calvin on the world as a theater of God's glory -- Can we chant Pslams with all God's creatures? -- Nature and desire in seventeenth-century Puritanism -- Open the kingdom for a cottonwood tree -- The schooling of desire : nature's purifying role in affliction -- Biodiversity and the holy trinity -- Jonathan Edwards on beauty, desire, and the sensory world -- On pilgrimage with Jonathan Edwards -- Transformed by beauty ; environmental ethics and the wildness of God -- Epilogue: Dead Creek, East Saint Louis.