Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1353/scs.2023.a909116
Reviewed by: Agrarian Spirit: Cultivating Faith, Community, and the Land by Norman Wirzba Matt Boswell (bio) Agrarian Spirit: Cultivating Faith, Community, and the Land. By Norman Wirzba. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2022. 264 pp. $29.00. I am a resident of Camas, Washington, deliberately. I live near the Quaker meeting I pastor—a four-minute drive or fifteen-minute walk—but also a two-hour drive (or less) to Wy'east, Loowit, Klickitat, and Seekseekqua (or, by their settler names, Mt. Hood, Mt. St. Helens, Mt. Adams, and Mt. Jefferson, respectively). I am also two hours from several Pacific coast trails and only minutes from the Columbia River Gorge. I live in a hiker's paradise and do not take that reality for granted. As often as I can, I am on the trail: exploring new trails and expanding my sense of community, each trail's ecosystem feeling like a new friend; and returning to trails that have left an impression on me, each visit like a reunion with old friends. I have come to recognize that I do not just "love" hiking or "love" these places, either in the sense of intense enjoyment or responsive care, even if these trails do give me pleasure or motivate me to consider my responsibility to protect and nurture these spaces. It feels more fitting to say that I have fallen in love with these places. I want to be with them. I want them to flourish. I recount hiking stories and share pictures on my social media accounts, inviting others into my joy and hoping they'll want to "come and see" for themselves, if possible. Given how revitalizing and clarifying these hikes are, I have come to need them. And, with more time, I have come to understand the patterns and particularities of these trails' ecosystems. How do I know I am smitten? One of my favorite wildflowers is the Columbia (tiger) lily, an orange, brown-spotted, downward-facing wildflower that thrives in subalpine meadows and forests. Their presence is delightfully unpredictable; I can hike a seven-mile trail and encounter only a single trailside Columbia lily, then drive past hundreds of them thriving in a roadside thicket. In June 2022, I discovered a single Columbia lily in Lacamas Park, a roughly 300-acre, trail-laden forest park of creeks, waterfalls, and wildflowers within Camas city limits. This park is known for its annual May bloom of purple Camas lilies, but this was the first Columbia lily I had seen in my seven years of living in Camas. A year later, in June 2023, I navigated the forest trails to this same spot, hoping to find that lily again. It took some searching, but when I found it, I broke the calm silence of the forest with a guttural and visceral "YES!!!" My shout reflected an interconnected set of feelings and impulses. Ecstasy. Relief. Protective concern. Attention. Reverence. Eagerness to share the good news with others. Innocent disregard for the spectacle, my exuberance may have seemed to the pair of hikers resting on a nearby rock. Many Quakers like
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1353/scs.2023.a899774
Reviewed by: Crippled Grace: Disability, Virtue Ethics, and the Good Life by Shane Clifton Maureen Pratt MTS, MFA (bio) Crippled Grace: Disability, Virtue Ethics, and the Good Life. By Shane Clifton. Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2018. 285 pp. $44.99 pbk/ $42.74 eb. A few years after my diagnosis of disabling lupus, a Christian friend asked if I was "over it" yet. When I explained that lupus is a chronic condition with no medical cure, my friend said, "You're not cured because you're not faithful enough." This encounter, a discomforting and disheartening reminder of how entrenched some uncompassionate attitudes toward virtue and health still are, resurfaced in my mind several times as I read Shane Clifton's Crippled Grace: Disability, Virtue Ethics, and the Good Life. In this profound and provocative book, Clifton reflects on two central questions: what is the significance of the Christian virtue tradition for the happiness (flourishing) of people with disabilities, and might disability itself offer "fresh insight into how we should understand flourishing?" (225) A theologian by training—"ecumenical and liberal (by which I mean open-minded in inclination)" (3), Clifton is honorary associate and professor at the Centre of Disability Research and Policy in the faculty of health sciences at the University of Sydney. However, perhaps even more important than his academic bona fides is his lived experience as an adult abruptly thrust into personal disability through a bicycle accident that rendered him a quadriplegic. This experience provides indispensable, authentic (and very honest) context to Clifton's reflections and, with the other narratives he includes in the book, brings what might have otherwise been a detached work into compelling, personal conversation with the subject matter and the reader. Prior to his accident, Clifton admits he had read nothing about disability, a comment perhaps not surprising; "disability is marginal to theological reflection" (151). Afterward, totally inter/dependent on others for all his care and slipping "into a deepening unhappiness" (4), he describes picking up a book he had begun reading pre-accident: Alistair MacIntyre's Dependent Rational Animals. There, he "discovered within its pages a spark of hope" and began to consider how the Christian virtue tradition could inform a way of "conceiving of happiness that could transcend my disability: happiness as a life lived well in and through its difficulties" (4). This inquiry, richly developed in the book, leads him not only to reflect on the historical and contemporary social reality of disability and its attendant duality, suffering and joy, but also to apply a hermeneutic of disability (and at times one of suspicion) on traditionally conceived theological and philosophical notions of the nature and practice of virtue, the attainment of happiness, and what it means to live a "good" life. After an introduction to his personal and professional story and appr
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1353/scs.2023.a899754
Thomas E. Reynolds
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1353/scs.2023.a899770
Yahia Lababidi
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{"title":"Slap","authors":"R. Cording","doi":"10.5040/9781350975675","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350975675","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42348,"journal":{"name":"Spiritus-A Journal of Christian Spirituality","volume":"23 1","pages":"156 - 157"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46103059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1353/scs.2023.a899764
R. Rowland
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