Food and faith: a theology of eating

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 ecol...

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Subtitles:Food & Faith
Main Author: Wirzba, Norman 1964- (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2011.
In:Year: 2011
Reviews:Food and Faith: A Theology of Eating by Norman Wirzba, Cambridge University Press, 2011 (ISBN 978-0-521-14624-1), xix + 244 pp., pb £16.99 (2013) (Parker, Jonathan D.)
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Eating / Theology
Further subjects:B Food Religious aspects Christianity
B Dinners and dining Religious aspects Christianity
B Dinners and dining ; Religious aspects ; Christianity
B Food habits
B Dinners and dining Religious aspects Christianity
B Food Habits
B Food ; Religious aspects ; Christianity
B Food Religious aspects Christianity
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Parallel Edition:Non-electronic
Print version: 9780521195508
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Summary: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, agrarian, cultural, biblical and theological analyses to draw a picture of eating that cares for creatures and that honors God. Unlike books that focus on vegetarianism or food distribution as the key theological matters, this book broadens the scope to include discussions on the sacramental character of eating, eating's ecological and social contexts, the meaning of death and sacrifice as they relate to eating, the Eucharist as the place of inspiration and orientation, the importance of saying grace and whether or not there will be eating in Heaven. Food and Faith demonstrates that eating is of profound economic, moral and theological significance.
1. Thinking theologically about food -- 2. The 'roots' of eating: our life together in gardens -- 3. Eating in exile: dysfunction in the world of food -- 4. Life through death: sacrificial eating -- 5. Eucharistic table manners: eating toward communion -- 6. Saying grace -- 7. Eating in Heaven?: consummating communion
Item Description:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
ISBN:0511978987
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511978982