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Food and faith : a theology of eating
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Food and faith : a theology of eating

Author: Norman Wirzba
Publisher: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"This book provides a comprehensive theological framework for assessing eating's significance, demonstrating that eating is of profound economic, moral, and theological significance"--
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Norman Wirzba
ISBN: 9780521195508 0521195500 9780521146241 0521146240
OCLC Number: 691203971
Description: xix, 244 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 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.
Other Titles: Food & faith
Responsibility: Norman Wirzba.

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'... an important and timely book, profound and challenging ... Truly a tract for the times.' Tim Gorringe, St Luke's Professor of Theology, University of Exeter 'No reader will be able to take a Read more...

 
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