Gaia's Gift: Earth, Ourselves and God After Copernicus

by Anne Primavesi

Book Overview

Gaia's Gift , the second of Anne Primavesi's explorations of human relationships with the earth, asks that we complete the ideological revolution set in motion by Copernicus and Darwin concerning... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415288355
• ISBN13: 9780415288354
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

A Modern Synthesis

"Gaia's Gift" brings together many threads of modern knowledge and great issues of concern such as threats to earth integrity and unjustice between nations and individuals. These are placed in the context of a critical history of religion, especially the Judeo-Christian tradition. The organization and prose make these potentially difficult and complex analyses relatively easy to follow and remember.As I am a scientist with no formal training in Theology or church history, Primavesi's books have helped me to understand why the scientific findings that are so compelling to me are rejected by a large proportion of society. Furthermore, why I should be concerned to increase social consciousness of the impact of religion on civil and social practice.On the other hand, many of my scientist friends dismiss all religious belief and practice with scorn. "Gaia's Gift" would help them to understand that impulses of awe, joy, and thankfulness are fully appropriate as we accept our gift of life that has been prepared by earth and the web of life throughout deep time and in the present.