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Author Wirzba, Norman, author.

Title Food and faith : a theology of eating / Norman Wirzba
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011

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Contents 1. Thinking theologically about food -- 2. The 'roots' of eating: our life together in gardens -- 3. Eating in exile: dysfunction in the world of food -- 4. Life through death: sacrificial eating -- 5. Eucharistic table manners: eating toward communion -- 6. Saying grace -- 7. Eating in Heaven?: consummating communion
Summary A comprehensive theological framework for assessing the significance of eating, demonstrating that eating is of profound economic, moral and theological significance
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes In English
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Subject Dinners and dining -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Food -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Food habits.
feeding habits.
religion.
ethics.
value systems.
RELIGION -- Theology.
Dinners and dining -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Food habits.
Food -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Speise.
Nahrungsaufnahme.
Kultmahl.
Theologie.
Christentum.
Theologie.
Lebensmittel.
Ritus.
Mat -- religiƶsa aspekter -- kristendom.
Matvanor -- religiƶsa aspekter -- kristendom.
Dinners -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Dining -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Food -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Eating customs.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781139082525
1139082523
1139080245
9781139080248
9780511978982
0511978987