The Paradise of God

In this provocative book Norman Wirzba argues that the doctrine of creation--as presented in the Bible and as developed through the centuries--actually holds the key to a true understanding of our place in the environment and our responsibility toward it. Wirzba contends that an adequate response to environmental destruction depends on a new formulation of ourselves as part of a larger whole rather than as radically free individuals. Drawing on the work of biblical scholars ecologists agrarians philosophers theologians and cultural critics Wirzba develops a comprehensive worldview that grows out of the idea that the world is God''s creation.