Join us for a discussion of Norman Wirzba's book This Sacred Life: Humanity’s Place in a Wounded World.
In preparation for Sunday, March 6, we are reading the Preface and Chapter 1.

Questions for discussion for reflection and discussion:

1. The book’s subtitle is, “Humanity’s Place in a Wounded World.” In what ways does the author see the world as “wounded,” and in what ways are these wounds connected to the Anthropocene? (xiv-xvii of the Preface, 14-18 of Chapter 1)

2. The author offers his first definition of our “creaturely condition” on pp. 19-20. What are the main features of this condition? How does the creaturely condition offer a vision of “freedom” that differs from how freedom is usually understood? (19-24)

3. Why, in the author’s view, is the language of the specific and local usually preferable to the language of the abstract and general? (29-33)

Join us for the conversation led by Steve Knight and Father Beddingfield. Join us in person or through Zoom at at https://zoom.us/j/8753617165 (for the password, type the numerals for eighteen ninety-nine, two thousand nineteen. No comma or space.)

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