This Sacred Life

Humanity's Place in a Wounded World

AvNorman Wirzba

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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Beskrivning

In a time of climate change, environmental degradation, and social injustice, the question of the value and purpose of human life has become urgent. What are the grounds for hope in a wounded world? This Sacred Life gives a deep philosophical and religious articulation of humanity's identity and vocation by rooting people in a symbiotic, meshwork world that is saturated with sacred gifts. The benefits of artificial intelligence and genetic enhancement notwithstanding, Norman Wirzba shows how an account of humans as interdependent and vulnerable creatures orients people to be a creative, healing presence in a world punctuated by wounds. He argues that the commodification of places and creatures needs to be resisted so that all life can be cherished and celebrated. Humanity's fundamental vocation is to bear witness to God's love for creaturely life, and to commit to the construction of a hospitable and beautiful world.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-10-14
Mått:158 x 235 x 20 mm
Vikt:590 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:286
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781316515648

Utforska kategorier

Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik
Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

Norman Wirzba is Gilbert T. Rowe Distinguished Professor of Theology at Duke University Divinity School and Senior Fellow at Duke's Kenan Institute for Ethics. He is the award-winning author of Food and Faith: A Theology of Eating, From Nature to Creation, and Way of Love.

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'How can we live with hope in the midst of a deeply wounded world? In prose as lucid in style as it is illuminating in content, Norman Wirzba's This Sacred Life builds a patient, forceful and elegant case that knowing where we are is crucial to understanding both who we are as human beings and how we are to live in ways that nourish our own being together with that of the world that sustains us. Drawing on biology, ecology, anthropology, economics and psychology as well as theology to show how our lives are densely interwoven with the well-being of soil, air and water, he provides an arresting vision of the gift such a rooted and entangled life can be.' Ian A. McFarland, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Theology, Candler School of Theology, and Quondam Regius Professor of Divinity, University of Cambridge

Innehållsförteckning

Preface; Part I. Assessing Our Situation: 1. Facing the Anthropocene; 2. The Transhumanist Urge; Part II. Turning To Fundamentals: 3. Rooted Life; 4. A Meshwork World; Part III. This Sacred Life: 5. Why Sacred Anything?; 6. The Logic of Creation; 7. Creaturely Humanity; 8. Called to Creativity; Index.

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