This book is both a testimonial and hymn, and it reveals the great reverence for creation which lices in the heart of Christian tradition. The Sermon of all Creation: Christians on Nature was a Merit Award Winner of the 2005 Midwest Independent Publishers Association Award in the Religion and Philosophy category. Was a Merit Award Winner of the 2005 Midwest Independent Publishers Association Award in the Nature category. Fitzgerald, Michael Oren has spent extended periods of time visiting traditional cultures and attending sacred ceremonies throughout the world. He has taught Religious Traditions of the North American Indians in the Indiana University Continuing Studies Department. Three of Mr. Fitzgerald’s books on American Indian spirituality are used in college and university classes. He holds a Doctor of Jurisprudence, cum laude, from Indiana University. Mr. Fitzgerald lives with his wife, Judith, and they have an adult son. They live in Bloomington, Indiana. The Fitzgerald family has deeded 342 acres located in both Santa Fe, New Mexico and Bloomington, Indiana into permanent conservation easements to prevent any future development. Judith Fitzgerald is a graduate of Indiana University. She is an artisan, calligrapher, and graphic designer, and has collaborated with her husband on several inspirational books. Chapter 1: When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained, what is man, that thou art mindful of him? Psalm 8:3-4 Belief in God rests on the art and wisdom displayed in the order of the world: the belief in the Unity of God, on the perfection that must belong to Him in respect of power, goodness, wisdom, etc. Gregory of Nyssa (330-395) Man is not a being isolated from the rest of creation. By his very nature, he is bound up with the whole of the universe. In his way to union with God, man in no way leaves creatures aside, but gathers together in his love the whole cosmos disordered by sin, that it may be transfigured by grace. Maximus the Confessor (580-662) The invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead. Romans 1:20 Nothing can be got out of a thing which is not in it. Therefore every species, every genus, every natural order, is naturally developed within its own limits, bearing fruit after its own kind, and not within some other essentially different order: everything in which seed is sown must correspond to its own seed. Richard the Englishman (ca. 16th/17th century)