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BOOKS & COFFEE: A MONTHLY REVIEW OF BOOKS



The next meeting of Books & Coffee, a forum for public discussion, will be
held tomorrow night, January 25, at 7:30 PM at Chattz Coffee,  which is
located  in the historic Park Plaza office building at 1010 Market Street,
near the downtown library. (The Chattz website is at
http://www.chattz.com/.)



Our guest for the evening will be James R. Peters, Professor of Philosophy
at the University of the South (Sewanee), who will be commenting on Norman
Wirzba's recent book THE PARADISE OF GOD: RENEWING RELIGION IN AN ECOLOGICAL
AGE (Oxford). Professor Peters teaches courses in Ancient and Medieval
Philosophy, Environmental Ethics, and Philosophical Theology.



Norman Wirzba teaches philosophy at Georgetown College in Kentucky. His
previous publications include an edition of the agrarian essays of Wendell
Berry, entitled THE ART OF THE COMMONPLACE, and a collection of essays
entitled THE ESSENTIAL AGRARIAN READER: THE FUTURE OF CULTURE, COMMUNITY,
AND THE LAND. Reviewers of THE PARADISE OF GOD have called it "an important
and original book," a "brave and imaginative achievement" which, by placing
religion and ecological thought in "fruitful dialogue," will "revise our
most basic presuppositions about our position in the world." Says theologian
Theodore Hiebert, "he shifts our understanding from steward to servant,
arguing that such an understanding.is the only path to a healthy society in
a healthy creation."



Please join us for this stimulating event. Books & Coffee is cosponsored by
UTC's SunTrust Chair of Excellence in Humanities and Covenant College. The
event is open to the public and free of charge---as is the coffee.