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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Is Christian singleness a burden to be endured or a God-ordained
vocation? Might singleness here and now give the church a glimpse
of God's heavenly promises? Dani Treweek offers biblical,
historical, cultural, and theological reflections to retrieve a
theology of singleness for the church today. Drawing upon both
ancient and contemporary theologians, including Augustine, AElfric
of Eynsham, John Paul II, and Stanley Hauerwas, she contends not
only that singleness has served an important role throughout the
church's history, but that single Christians present the church
with a foretaste of the eschatological reality that awaits all of
God's people. Far from being a burden, then, Christian singleness
is among the highest vocations of the faith.
In the past thirty years biodiversity has become one of the central
organizing principles through which we understand the nonhuman
environment. Its deceptively simple definition as the variation
among living organisms masks its status as a hotly contested term
both within the sciences and more broadly. In Eden's Endemics,
Elizabeth Callaway looks to cultural objects-novels, memoirs,
databases, visualizations, and poetry- that depict many species at
once to consider the question of how we narrate organisms in their
multiplicity. Touching on topics ranging from seed banks to science
fiction to bird-watching, Callaway argues that there is no set,
generally accepted way to measure biodiversity. Westerners tend to
conceptualize it according to one or more of an array of tropes
rooted in colonial history such as the Lost Eden, Noah's Ark, and
Tree-of-Life imagery. These conceptualizations affect what kinds of
biodiversities are prioritized for protection. While using
biodiversity as a way to talk about the world aims to highlight
what is most valued in nature, it can produce narratives that
reinforce certain power differentials-with real-life consequences
for conservation projects. Thus the choices made when portraying
biodiversity impact what is visible, what is visceral, and what is
unquestioned common sense about the patterns of life on Earth.
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