THIS IS A PAST EVENT.
Whatever we practice shapes our lives from the minutest levels within a human being to the macro levels of culture and nature. Christian spirituality studies daily, lived experience through the lens of God’s incarnate self-revelation. This course explores personal and corporate Christian spiritual practices, as daily ways to contribute to thriving social and ecological systems, specifically the human-nature relationship called food. It delves into the insights of Christian spirituality in dialogue with three natural sciences for the purpose of inviting students to:
- know themselves as Nature, as created co-creators, and as God’s Beloved, and
- to develop conscious life practices that nourish their relationship with the divine, themselves, and their neighbors, both human and natural, and that create more redemptive food systems where God’s shalom becomes visible for a hungry world.
By the end of this course, students will encounter ways to:
- Be cultivating the theological habit that living in peace with the land and with non-human Creation is a core pastoral practice for religious leaders and the communities with whom they serve.
- Gain familiarity with ways that some Christian spiritual practices shape personal and corporate relationship to food and thus to Nature as a whole.
- Be able to articulate more fully how food and faith issues touch different arenas of our human experience.
- Bring mindfulness to the ritual enactment of our human-nature relationship called food.
- Experience what Christian hope and mourning bring to matters of food and faith in this ecological time.
Professor: Nancy Wiens, Adjunct Faculty
Saturday, October 8, 2016 at 8:30am to 4:30pm
Divinity and Religious Studies Building, Room 201
1834 Wake Forest Road Winston-Salem, NC 27106
Susan Robinson, Administrative Coordinator for Academic Affairs
336.758.4157
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