Paradise of God : Renewing Religion in an Ecological Age, Hardcover

by Norman Wirzba

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Paradise of God : Renewing Religion in an Ecological Age, Hardcover by Wirzba, Norman, ISBN 0195157168, ISBN-13 9780195157161, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "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 religion bears a heavy share of responsibility for our destruction of the environment, and this passage from the King James version of the Bible exemplifies what is generally believed to be the Biblical attitude toward the earth. In this provocativ, however, Norman Wirzba argues that the doctrine of creation, when understood as a statement about the moral and spiritual meaning of the world, actually holds the key to a true understanding of our place in the environment and our responsibility toward it. Wirzba contends that an adequate response to environmental destruction depends on a new formulation of ourselves as part of a created whole, rather than as autonomous, unencumbered individuals. Drawing on the work of biblical scholars, ecologists, agrarians, philosophers, theologians, and cultural critics, Wirzba develops a comprehensive worldview that grows out of the idea that the world is God's creation. While the text of Genesis has historically encouraged a vision of persons as masters of creation, a more the

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
• Year: 2003
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9780195157161
• Condition: Fine

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