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Scripture Culture and Agriculture
Author | : Ellen F. Davis |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2008-10-13 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781139473613 |
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This book examines the theology and ethics of land use, especially the practices of modern industrialized agriculture, in light of critical biblical exegesis. Nine interrelated essays explore the biblical writers' pervasive concern for the care of arable land against the background of the geography, social structures, and religious thought of ancient Israel. This approach consistently brings out neglected aspects of texts, both poetry and prose, that are central to Jewish and Christian traditions. Rather than seeking solutions from the past, Davis creates a conversation between ancient texts and contemporary agrarian writers; thus she provides a fresh perspective from which to view the destructive practices and assumptions that now dominate the global food economy. The biblical exegesis is wide-ranging and sophisticated; the language is literate and accessible to a broad audience.
Food Farming and Faith
Author | : Gary W. Fick |
Publsiher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2012-04-24 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780791478554 |
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Using scripture and science, a Christian agricultural scientist presents an ethic of farming that promotes good food and a healthy environment.
Opening Israel s Scriptures
Author | : Ellen F. Davis |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 465 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Bibles |
ISBN | : 9780190260545 |
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Opening Israel's Scriptures is a collection of thirty-six essays on the Hebrew Bible, from Genesis to Chronicles, which gives powerful insight into the complexity and inexhaustibility of the Hebrew Scriptures as a theological resource. Based on more than two decades of lectures on Old Testament interpretation, Ellen F. Davis offers a selective yet comprehensive guide to the core concepts, literary patterns, storylines, and theological perspectives that are central to Israel's Scriptures. Underlying the whole study is the primary assumption that each book of the canon has literary and theological coherence, though not uniformity. In both her close readings of individual texts and in her broad demonstrations of the coherence of whole books, Davis models the best practices of contemporary exegesis, integrating the insights of contemporary scholars with those of classical theological resources in Jewish and Christian traditions. Throughout, she keeps an eye to the experiences and concerns of contemporary readers, showing through multiple examples that the critical interpretation of texts is provisional, open-ended work--a collaboration across generations and cultures. Ultimately what she offers is an invitation into the more spacious world that the Bible discloses, which challenges ordinary conceptions of how things "really" are.
Lived Theology
Author | : Charles Marsh,Peter Slade,Sarah Azaransky |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780190630720 |
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"Written as a two-year collaboration of the Project on Lived Theology at the University of Virginia, this volume offers a series of illustrations and styles that distinguish Lived Theology in the broader conversation with other major approaches to the religious interpretation of embodied life."--Jacket.
Getting Involved with God
Author | : Ellen F. Davis |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Bible |
ISBN | : 9781561011971 |
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"This is a book about getting, and staying, involved with God--what it takes, what it costs, what it looks and feels like, why anyone would want to do it anyway. It is at the same time a book about reading the Old Testament as a source of Good News and guidance for our life with God. The key piece of Good News that the Old Testament communicates over and over again is that God is involved with us, deeply and irrevocably so." --from the Introduction With sound scholarship and her own vivid translations from the Hebrew, Old Testament professor Ellen Davis teaches us a spiritually engaged method of reading scripture. Beginning with the psalms, whose frank prayers can be a model for our own, Davis reflects on the stories of the patriarchs and the pastoral wisdom of the book of Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Songs in helping us cultivate those habits of the heart that lead to a rich relationship with God.
Inhabiting Eden
Author | : Patricia K. Tull |
Publsiher | : Westminster John Knox Press |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780664233334 |
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In this thoughtful study, respected Old Testament scholar Patricia K. Tull explores the Scriptures for guidance on today's ecological crisis. Tull looks to the Bible for what it can tell us about our relationships, not just to the earth itself, but also to plant and animal life, to each other, to descendants who will inherit the planet from us, and to our Creator. She offers candid discussions on many current ecological problems that humans contribute to, such as the overuse of energy resources like gas and electricity, consumerism, food production systems--including land use and factory farming--and toxic waste. Each chapter concludes with discussion questions and a practical exercise, making it ideal for both group and individual study. This important book provides a biblical basis for thinking about our world differently and prompts us to consider changing our own actions. Visit inhabitingeden.org for links to additional resources and information.
Good Food
Author | : Jennifer R. Ayres |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
ISBN | : 1602589844 |
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Good Food equips readers with the theological and practical tools needed to safeguard that which sustains us: food.--Loren Wilkinson, Regent College "Theology Today"
The Gift of Good Land
Author | : Wendell Berry |
Publsiher | : Catapult |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2018-09-05 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9781640091696 |
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The essays in The Gift of Good Land are as true today as when they were first published in 1981; the problems addressed here are still true and the solutions no nearer to hand. The insistent theme of this book is the interdependence, the wholeness, the oneness of people, land, weather, animals, and family. To touch one is to tamper with them all. We live in one functioning organism whose separate parts are artificially isolated by our culture. Here, Berry develops the compelling argument that the “gift” of good land has strings attached. We have it only on loan and only for as long as we practice good stewardship.