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Books > Philosophy > General
What does it mean to exercise patience? What does it mean to
endure, to wait, and to persevere-and, on other occasions, to
reject patience in favor of resistance, haste, and disruptive
action? And what might it mean to describe God as patient? Might
patience play a leading role in a Christian account of God's
creative work, God's relationship to ancient Israel, God's
governance of history, and God's saving activity? The first
instalment of Patience-A Theological Exploration engages these
questions in searching, imaginative, and sometimes surprising ways.
Following reflections on the biblical witness and the nature of
constructive theological inquiry, its interpretative chapters
engage landmark works by a number of ancient, medieval, modern, and
contemporary authors, disclosing both the promise and peril of talk
about patience. Patience stands at the center of this innovative
account of God's creative work, God's relationship with ancient
Israel, creaturely sin, scripture, and God's broader providential
and salvific purposes.
In recent decades, green chemistry dominated the imagination of
sustainability scholars all over the world and was embraced by
leading global universities and companies. This new concept is
supposed to address the environmental crisis by making chemistry
safer and less polluting. And yet, under this seemingly
straightforward success story hides a tangled and ambiguous
reality: alternative frameworks, shoddy greenness criteria, and
power struggles. This book retraces the history of the green
chemistry concept and critically assesses its claims and dominant
narratives about it. It is an indispensable guide for all those
interested in the challenges of sustainability, whether they have
background in chemistry or not. Its underlying question is: is
green chemistry really that green?
Thorstein Veblen's groundbreaking treatise upon the evolution of
the affluent classes of society traces the development of
conspicuous consumption from the feudal Middle Ages to the end of
the 19th century. Beginning with the end of the Dark Ages, Veblen
examines the evolution of the hierarchical social structures. How
they incrementally evolved and influenced the overall picture of
human society is discussed. Veblen believed that the human social
order was immensely unequal and stratified, to the point where vast
amounts of merit are consequently ignored and wasted. Veblen draws
comparisons between industrialization and the advancement of
production and the exploitation and domination of labor, which he
considered analogous to a barbarian conquest happening from within
society. The heavier and harder labor falls to the lower members of
the order, while the light work is accomplished by the owners of
capital: the leisure class.
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