Food and Faith

Norman Wirzba is Professor of Theology and Ecology at Duke Divinity School, and Senior Fellow at Duke's Kenan Institute for Ethics. His first edition of Food and Faith was named 'Book of the Year'" by the Englewood Review of Books, and earned Honorable Mention in the 2011 PROSE Award. Wirzba's other books include From Nature to Creation (2015), Way of Love (2016), Making Peace with the Land (2012), Living the Sabbath (2006), and The Paradise of God (2007), and he is the editor for a series on the New Agrarianism.

• Introduction: who is the you that eats?; 1. It's about fidelity; 2. Thinking theologically about food; 3. The 'roots' of eating: our life together in gardens; 4. Eating in exile: dysfunction in the world of food; 5. Life through death: sacrificial eating; 6. Eucharistic table manners: eating toward communion; 7. Saying Grace; 8. Eating in heaven? Consummating communion; Epilogue. Faithful eating in an anthropocene world.

'Many people who 'do theology' for a living resign themselves to dusty classrooms where they fiddle with doctrines that most us can't even pronounce. But not Norman Wirzba. He is a first-rate thinker by any reckoning, but he has devoted his life to the holiness of the ordinary. It's no surprise then that he would pen a groundbreaking theology of eating. Food and Faith is an invitation to taste and see God's goodness with the power to transform your mealtimes into worship services. Savor this book slowly, and thank me when you're finished.' Jonathan Merritt, author of Learning to Speak God from Scratch and contributing writer for The Atlantic