Gratitude for the Wild: Christian Ethics in the Wilderness (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781498561129)

Since the passage of the Wilderness Act of 1964, a hotly contested debate over the value of wilderness reveals cultural anxieties about an American society that has spurned limits. Gratitude for the Wild explores how the wild known in wilderness raises our tolerance for mystery in the recognition of our limits and in the celebration of a God-loved world that exceeds our grasping. The idea of wilderness introduces questions about the balance between utility and appreciation, and between enjoyment and restraint. Wilderness is a nexus of competing and contested accounts of responsibility. In conversation with the work of Doug Peacock, Terry Tempest Williams, James Gustafson, and Martin Luther King Jr., Nathaniel Van Yperen offers an original argument for how wilderness can evoke a vision of a good life in which creaturely limits are accepted in gratitude, even in the face of ambiguity and mystery. Through the theme of gratitude, the book refocuses attention on the role of affection and testimony in ecological ethics and Christian ethics.

Author: Nathaniel Van Yperen
ISBN-10: 1498561128
ISBN-13: 9781498561129
Publisher: Lexington Books
Language: English
Published: 06/17/2019
Pages: 130
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d