Pt. 1: agrarian fundamentals -- On not losing creation -- Why agrarian? -- Placing the soul -- Pt. 2: agrarian spiritual exercises -- Learning to pray -- Learning to see -- Learning descent -- Learning humility -- Learning generosity -- Learning to hope.
Summary:
This refreshing work offers a distinctly agrarian reframing of spiritual practices to address today’s most pressing social and ecological concerns. For 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 Agrarian Spirit, Norman Wirzba demonstrates how agrarianism is of vital and continuing significance for spiritual life today.
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