Norman Wirzba: 7 books
by Norman Wirzba
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2003
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. (Gen. 1:26) It has become a commonplace that Biblical...
Living the Sabbath (The Christian Practice of Everyday Life)
Discovering the Rhythms of Rest and Delight
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006
Sabbath is one day a week when we should rest from our otherwise harried lives, right? In Living the Sabbath, Norman Wirzba leads us to a much more holistic and rewarding understanding of Sabbath-keeping. Wirzba shows how Sabbath is ultimately about delight in the goodness that God has made--in everything...
Making Peace with the Land
God's Call to Reconcile with Creation
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2012
God is reconciling all things in heaven and on earth. We are alienated not only from one another, but also from the land that sustains us. Our ecosystems are increasingly damaged, and human bodies are likewise degraded. Most of us have little understanding of how our energy is derived or our food...
From Nature to Creation (The Church and Postmodern Culture)
A Christian Vision for Understanding and Loving Our World
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
How does Christianity change the way we view the natural world? In this addition to a critically acclaimed series, renowned theologian Norman Wirzba engages philosophers, environmentalists, and cultural critics to show how the modern concept of nature has been deeply problematic. He explains that...
Food and Faith
A Theology of Eating
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2011
This book provides a comprehensive theological framework for assessing significance of eating, employing a Trinitarian theological lens to evaluate food production and consumption practices as they are being worked out in today's industrial food systems. Norman Wirzba combines the tools of ecological,...
Food and Faith
A Theology of Eating
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
This book provides a comprehensive theological framework for assessing the significance of eating. Drawing on diverse theological, philosophical, and anthropological insights, it offers fresh ways to evaluate food production and consumption practices as they are being worked out in today's industrial...
Being-in-Creation
Human Responsibility in an Endangered World
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
What is the proper relationship between human beings and the more-than-human world? This philosophical question, which underlies vast environmental crises, forces us to investigate the tension between our extraordinary powers, which seem to set us apart from nature, even above it, and our thoroughgoing...