From Nature to Creation: A Christian Vision for Understanding and Loving Our World Paperback - 2015
by Norman Wirzba; James Smith (Editor)
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"A winsome argument for reimagining the natural world as creation"
"Norman Wirzba writes with verve, alacrity, and theological sensitivity in laying out particular arguments for bringing back the importance of creation for a theological anthropology relevant to earth ethics. Wirzba is careful to trace the history of ideas and show us their philosophical underpinnings, while illuminating our current impoverished condition. He is persuasive in noting the cultural need for a movement away from the disorientation resulting from an 'eclipse of creation' toward an orientation that is rooted in a profound understanding of creatureliness. This book will be valuable not only for individuals but also in a variety of ecclesial as well as educational settings."
--Celia E. Deane-Drummond, University of Notre Dame
"With insightful analysis and lucid prose Norman Wirzba offers a winsome argument for reimagining the natural world as creation--lovingly made, sustained, and redeemed by the triune God. From Nature to Creation expertly traces how major trends in contemporary culture undermine the possibility of care for creation. Most importantly, this book compellingly demonstrates how we may love God and embrace our creatureliness in ways that are faithful and life-giving for all of God's creatures."
--Steven Bouma-Prediger, Hope College; author of For the Beauty of the Earth
"In this, his most important book yet, Norman Wirzba asks the simple question: What difference would it make if we thought of the earth not as nature but as creation? His answer--that 'this is the world in which God delights . . . the world we are called to love'--challenges everyone. Drawing with magisterial and eloquent scholarship on a vast range of sources across both Christian and secular thought, Wirzba calls us to attentiveness, to rootedness--and above all, to gratitude."
--Loren Wilkinson, Regent College, Vancouver
"As commercialized nature and utilitarian thinking poison the planet and change the climate, what could be more important than 'creation' as the gracious way we live? No one is better than Wirzba in describing modernity's idolatrous and disastrous course and offering a Christian understanding of creation as the antidote."
--Larry Rasmussen, Union Theological Seminary, New York City
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- Title From Nature to Creation: A Christian Vision for Understanding and Loving Our World
- Author Norman Wirzba; James Smith (Editor)
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 174
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Baker Academic
- Date 2015-10-01
- ISBN 9780801095931 / 080109593X
- Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
- Dimensions 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.5 in (21.34 x 13.72 x 1.27 cm)
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Themes
- Religious Orientation: Christian
- Library of Congress subjects Ecotheology, Human ecology - Religious aspects -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2015015876
- Dewey Decimal Code 231.765
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Citations
- Christianity Today, 12/01/2015, Page 69
- Foreword, 08/27/2015, Page 0
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