Description: Virtues are values underlying human practices. We are
at the dawn of a new era, an era of global ethics requiring some
core virtues. These core virtues are hospitality, co-living,
respect, tolerance, and communality. Book 1 treats the virtue of
hospitality that is a right and a duty of all, and which is still
to be discovered and practiced unconditionally. Book 2 deals with
the virtues of co-living, respect, and tolerance, which are
important virtues if the peoples of the earth are to live together
in peace in our common home, the planet Earth. Finally, Book 3
deals with the virtue of communality; this is a very important
virtue because a large part of humanity experiences hunger and
thirst, which is something scandalous in this day and age, and
which demonstrates a lack of humanity, because we possess the
technical means and political framework to resolve this situation.
If these core virtues become a reality, they will transform human
practices into something beneficial both to human beings and to the
planet Earth, our common home. Endorsements: ""Leonardo Boff
touches on a theme which is central to human flourishing and is a
timely reminder of the need for the implementation of the practical
politics of human connectedness. The exploration of the necessary
processes to achieve hospitality, co-living, respect, tolerance,
and communality is a key challenge of our age, and this book makes
a positive contribution to that goal."" --Christopher Rowland Dean
Ireland Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture University of
Oxford ""Leonardo Boff spins the spirituality of St. Francis into
an ecological, cosmic, political--albeit human--vision of what our
world could become if we are willing to practice hospitality,
co-living, tolerance, respect, and feasting together. As a pastor
whose church is earth-friendly and becoming green with solar
panels, I found in Boff's Virtues a credible, sustainable
spirituality for all peoples of faith to meet the challenges of th
twenty-first century. Very few theologians weave environmental and
social justice into a unified holistic vision as Boff has
accomplished here."" --Robert Shore-Goss Senior Pastor/Theologian
MCC in the Valley About the Contributor(s): Leonardo Boff was born
in Brazil in 1938 and received a doctorate from the University of
Munich in Germany in 1970. For the following twenty years, he
worked as Professor of Theology at the Franciscan School for
Philosophy and Theology in Petropolis, Brazil. During the 1970s, he
and Gustavo Gutierrez helped to define liberation theology. Since
1993 he has been a professor at the State University of Rio de
Janeiro, where he is now Emeritus Professor of Ethics, Philosophy
of Religion, and Ecology. He is also a member of the international
Earth Charter Commission. Boff is the author of more than seventy
books, including Saint Joseph: The Father of Jesus in a Fatherless
Society. In 2001 he was awarded the Right Livelihood Award (which
is considered to be the ""alternative"" Nobel Prize) by the Swedish
Parliament. Alex Guilherme teaches in the Department of Philosophy
at Durham University.
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