Living the Sabbath
If you buy enough books from Amazon, they start e-mailing you recommendations based on books you have previously bought. They've got their work cut out for them when it comes to me.
I'm a pretty big sucker for their recommendations. A recent book I bought this way is Living the Sabbath by Norman Wirzba. Here's a sample of the riches within:
Creation in Christ inaugurates a fundamentally different ordering of reality from the one we might choose for ourselves. Our ways of ordering, premised as they are on self-promotion and the tools of exploitation and control, inevitably lead to violence and death. The way of Christ, which is the way creation is supossed to be, inaugurates a new kind of reality, no longer dependent or paristic upon violence. It is not as though creation were a different act, something which happened alongside salvation.
God's nearness to creation presents salvation as the restoration of creaturely equilibrium and subordinates human reality within the framework of the world's natural processes.
I saw a dead body today - it was covered with a blanket and was on a stretcher being placed in the back of a white van. Someone fell on the tracks of the skytrain this morning at 8:30 at the Metrotown station.
I was going to Metrotown for a meeting. All train passengers were diverted to buses - just as my bus was pulling in, I saw the body.
weird thing - it never made the evening news.
Then later today, Adam walked into the kitchen, looked around and then told Felicia: "This room is messy.... and this floor is dirty." Then turned around and walked away.
I'm a pretty big sucker for their recommendations. A recent book I bought this way is Living the Sabbath by Norman Wirzba. Here's a sample of the riches within:
Creation in Christ inaugurates a fundamentally different ordering of reality from the one we might choose for ourselves. Our ways of ordering, premised as they are on self-promotion and the tools of exploitation and control, inevitably lead to violence and death. The way of Christ, which is the way creation is supossed to be, inaugurates a new kind of reality, no longer dependent or paristic upon violence. It is not as though creation were a different act, something which happened alongside salvation.
God's nearness to creation presents salvation as the restoration of creaturely equilibrium and subordinates human reality within the framework of the world's natural processes.
I saw a dead body today - it was covered with a blanket and was on a stretcher being placed in the back of a white van. Someone fell on the tracks of the skytrain this morning at 8:30 at the Metrotown station.
I was going to Metrotown for a meeting. All train passengers were diverted to buses - just as my bus was pulling in, I saw the body.
weird thing - it never made the evening news.
Then later today, Adam walked into the kitchen, looked around and then told Felicia: "This room is messy.... and this floor is dirty." Then turned around and walked away.
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