The joyful task of theology / Timothy Radcliffe -- I. The Earth Bible. Profiling creation as grace / Ellen van Wolde -- The inverse cosmology of Job: an option to celebrate? / Norman C. Habel -- Qoheleth: the ambiguity of enjoyment / Antoon Schoors -- II. Ecofeminism and grace. The God of possibilities: immanence and transcendence rethought / Rosemary Radford Ruether -- The dance of creation / Isabel Gomez Acebo -- Grace and the other: a postcolonial reflection on ideology and doctrinal systems / Marcella Maria Althaus-Reid -- III. A worldwide view of grace. Identity shaped by the ancestors: examples from folk talk of the Akan in Ghana / Mercy Amba Oduyoye -- Subversion, transgression, transcendence: 'Asian spirituality' in the light of Dalit and Adivasi struggles / Gabriele Dietrich -- IV. God's grace - good grace? God laughing out loud / Mary Hunt -- Grace in the midst of dis-grace: unexpected gifts / Frei Betto -- The God of grace versus the 'God' of the market / Elsa Tamez -- The destructive and liberating power of laughter: anthropological and theological aspects / Karl-Josef Kuschel