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Love's Braided Dance : Hope in a Time of Crisis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wirzba, Norman.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hope--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Hope.
- Genre:
- Meditations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (201 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- "A moving exploration of the place of hope in the world today, drawing on agrarian principles 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. 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. 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"-- Publisher's description.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction: The Way of Hope
- One: Erotic Hope
- Two: When Hope Languishes
- Three: Resonant Hope
- Four: Hope Grows in Places of Belonging
- Five: A Forgiveness-Seeking Hope
- Six: A Forgiveness-Granting Hope
- Seven: A Hopeful Architecture
- Eight: A Hopeful Economy
- Epilogue: Learning to Dance
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780300280777
- 0300280777
- OCLC:
- 1458756952
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