The World Made Otherwise: Sustaining Humanity in a Threatened World

by Timothy J. Gorringe

Overview

Many natural scientists believe climate change will bring civilizational collapse. Tim Gorringe argues that behind this threat is a commitment to false values, embodied in our political, economic, and farming systems. At the same time, millions of people the world over--perhaps the majority--are committed to alternative values and practices. This book explores how these values, already foreshadowed in people's movements all over the world, can produce different political and economic realities which can underwrite a safe and prosperous future for all.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781532648694
Publisher:	Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date:	11/13/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	384
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

Timothy J. Gorringe is Emeritus Professor of Theology at the University of Exeter, United Kingdom. He is the author of many books including Karl Barth: Against Hegemony (1999), A Theology of the Built Environment (2004), and The Common Good and the Global Emergency (2011).

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Introduction

Chapter 1 A Coming Dark Age? 3

Part 1 Values and Virtues

Chapter 2 Value, Life, and Politics 47

Chapter 3 On Making and Keeping Human Life Human 79

Part 2 Practices

Chapter 4 The Shape of the Human Home 117

Chapter 5 Valuing Equality 155

Chapter 6 Economics as If the Planet Mattered 194

Chapter 7 Money and Value 237

Chapter 8 Feeding Ten Billion 274

Part 3 Transition

Chapter 9 The World Made Otherwise 309

Bibliography 349

Index 369