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Self, Earth, and Society: Alienation and Trinitarian Transformation
Authors: Thomas N. Finger
ISBN: 0-8308-1893-6
Publisher: Downers Grove, Ill: InterVarsity Press
Number of pages: 408
Type of cover: Soft Cover
Summary: From the Publisher:
The twentieth century has been one of unparalleled and rapid transience. It is the century that started with the telephone and will end with e-mail. Jobs and homes are now changed at the rate of a half-dozen or more in a lifetime. Air and water pollution has brought the well-being of the earth itself into question. And political revolutions have rocked the world and soaked the soil of entire continents in blood.
If there is a key word for the twentieth century, it might be alienation. Amid increasing and sometimes chaotic complexity, individuals struggle to attain an integrated and stable self. Ecological consciousness has helped us as post-Enlightenment humans to see how estranged we are from the earth. Whole societies, too, are internally divided.
Thomas Finger's profound and important book recognizes and reveals the connections between these three alienations. He shows that people are cut off from themselves, for instance, partly because they are cut off from the natural world around them. To remedy the situation, Finger undertakes a probing critical conversation with culture. He astutely describes and examines the alienations that haunt us all. And he outlines a constructive trinitarian response that might mark the beginning of true healing for ourselves, our earth and our society.
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