This Sacred Life - Humanity''s Place in a Wounded World

This Sacred Life redescribes the meaning of this world and the value and purpose of human life within it.

List of contents

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.

About the author

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.

Summary

This Sacred Life offers a deep philosophical and religious articulation of the meaning and purpose of human life in a world wounded by environmental degradation and social injustice. It recasts human identity and vocation in terms of the healing and repair of the world and its communities.

Product details

• Authors: Norman Wirzba, Norman (Duke University Wirzba, Wirzba Norman
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2021
• EAN: 9781316515648
• ISBN: 978-1-316-51564-8
• No. of pages: 300
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, RELIGION / Spirituality, PHILOSOPHY / Religious, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, RELIGION / Ethics, RELIGION / Theology, RELIGION / Philosophy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, RELIGION / Religion & Science, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Theology, Spirituality & religious experience, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Conservation of the environment, Social and cultural anthropology, Religious ethics, Philosophy of religion, Spirituality and religious experience, Religion and science, Religion & science, Environmentalist thought and ideology