The last decade has seen growing solidarity among diverse advocates for environmental justice, health and nutrition, animal rights, and gustatory pleasure. Food and Faith: A Theology of Eating adds an important Christian voice to this ongoing conversation from Norman Wirzba, a research professor of theology, ecology, and rural life at Duke Divinity School. Wirzba, whose previous books include The Paradise of God: Renewing Religion in an Ecological Age (2003, OUP) and Living the Sabbath: Discovering the Rhythms of Rest and Delight (2006, Brazos), has also compiled a collection of Wendell Berry's agrarian essays, The Art of the Commonplace (2002, Counterpoint), and The Agrarian Reader (2003, University Press of Kentucky). In this, his newest work, he brings a trinitarian and eucharistically centered theology to bear on the complex ecological, economic, social, and spiritual realities involved in one of our most basic and necessary human functions: eating. As in previous books, Wirzba approaches his subject with grace, with "reverence for the creation as the work of God's hands."
