{"title":"Norman Wirzba","description":"Norman Wirzba is the Gilbert T. Rowe Distinguished Professor of Christian Theology at Duke Divinity School and senior fellow at the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. He is the author and editor of sixteen books, including This Sacred Life: Humanity's Place in a Wounded World.","products":[{"product_id":"agrarian-spirit-cultivating-faith-community-and-the-land-paperback","title":"Agrarian Spirit: Cultivating Faith, Community, and the Land - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis refreshing work offers a distinctly agrarian reframing of spiritual practices to address today's most pressing social and ecological concerns.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor thousands of years most human beings drew their daily living from, and made sense of their lives in reference to, the land. Growing and finding food, along with the multiple practices of home maintenance and the cultivations of communities, were the abiding concerns that shaped what people understood about and expected from life. In \u003cem\u003eAgrarian Spirit\u003c\/em\u003e, Norman Wirzba demonstrates how agrarianism is of vital and continuing significance for spiritual life today. Far from being the exclusive concern of a dwindling number of farmers, this book shows how agrarian practices are an important corrective to the political and economic policies that are doing so much harm to our society and habitats. It is an invitation to the personal transformation that equips all people to live peaceably and beautifully with each other and the land.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAgrarian Spirit\u003c\/em\u003e begins with a clear and concise affirmation of creaturely life. Wirzba shows that a human life is inextricably entangled with the lives of fellow animals and plants, and that individual flourishing must always include the flourishing of the habitats that nourish and sustain our life together. The book explores how agrarian sensibilities and responsibilities transform the practices of prayer, perception, mystical union, humility, gratitude, and hope. Wirzba provides an elegant and compelling account of spiritual life that is both attuned to ancient scriptural sources and keyed to addressing the pressing social and ecological concerns of today. Scholars and students of theology, ecotheology, and spirituality, as well as readers interested in agrarian and environmental studies, will gain much from this book.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51377592860895,"sku":"9780268203108","price":30.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/7dSSCZLbgS9780268203108.webp?v=1789236140"},{"product_id":"loves-braided-dance-hope-in-a-time-of-crisis-hardcover","title":"Love's Braided Dance: Hope in a Time of Crisis - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA moving exploration of the place of hope in the world today, drawing on agrarian principles\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this series of meditations, Norman Wirzba recasts hope not as something people have, like a vaccine to prevent pain and trouble, but as something people do. Hope evaporates in conditions of abandonment and abuse. It grows in contexts of nurture and belonging. Hope ignites when people join in what Wendell Berry calls \"love's braided dance\"--a commitment to care for one another and our world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Through personal narratives and historical examples, Wirzba explores what sustains hope and why it so often seems absent from our vision of the future. The vitality of hope, he maintains, depends on a collective commitment to care for the physical world (its soils and waters, plants and animals, homes and neighborhoods) and to promote the moral, aesthetic, and spiritual ideals that affirm life as good, beautiful, and sacred. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Engaging with such contemporary topics as climate change, AI and social media, and the intensifying refugee crises and drawing on the wisdom of James Baldwin, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Martha Graham, and others, Wirzba offers a powerful argument for hope as a way of life in which people are intimately and practically joined with all the living.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51377646436575,"sku":"9780300272659","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/4dBrw_sqcd9780300272659.webp?v=1789236282"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/norman-wirzba.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}