Spring 2012The Honors Community is pleased to announce its 14th Scholar-in-Residence lecture series. We will welcome Dr. Norman Wirzba to Union University for a series of four midday lectures February 14-17.
Dr. Wirzba is Research Professor of Theology, Ecology, and Rural Life at Duke University Divinity School. He pursues research and teaching interests at the intersections of theology, philosophy, ecology, and agrarian and environmental studies. In particular, he focuses on understanding and promoting practices that will equip both rural and urban church communities to be more faithful and responsible members of creation.
His recent books include Food and Faith: A Theology of Eating (Cambridge), The Paradise of God: Renewing Religion in an Ecological Age (Oxford), and Living the Sabbath: Discovering the Rhythms of Rest and Delight (Brazos). He has also edited The Essential Agrarian Reader: The Future of Culture, Community, and the Land (Counterpoint) and The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry (Counterpoint).
Lectures on "Living in God's Creation"