Food for Life: The Spirituality and Ethics of Eating - Softcover

Jung, L. Shannon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0800636422 ISBN 13: 9780800636425

Publisher: Fortress Press, 2004

Synopsis

Food for Life draws on L. Shannon Jung's gifts as theologian, ethicist, pastor, and eater extraordinaire. In this deeply thoughtful but very lively book, he encourages us to see our humdrum habits of eating and drinking as a spiritual practice that can renew and transform us and our world. In a fascinating sequence that takes us from the personal to the global, Jung establishes the religious meaning of eating and shows how it dictates a healthy order of eating. He exposes Christians' complicity in the face of widespread eating disorders we experience personally, culturally, and globally, and he argues that these disorders can be reversed through faith, Christian practices, attention to habitual activities like cooking and gardening, the church's ministry, and transforming our cultural policies about food.

About this title

About the Author:

L. Shannon Jung - director of the Center for Theology and Land, a joint project of the Wartburg and University of Dubuque Theological Seminaries in Iowa.

About this edition

• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0800636422
• ISBN 13: 9780800636425
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192