Making God Laugh
Subtitle: Human Arrogance and Ecological Humility
Publisher: Polebridge Press
Published: December 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780944344699
Subjects: Religion - Commentaries / Reference; Religion; Gaia hypothesis; Religious aspects; Religion & Science; Christian Theology - Anthropology; Philosophy; Ecofeminism; General; Christianity
First sentence: A Yiddish proverb tells us, "If you want to make God laugh, tell Him your plans."
Description: "Making God Laugh examines the fundamentalist claim that we can know what God knows and that we can, therefore, speak with divine authority about God's plans for us and for the world. Such arrogance must surely make God laugh! But its effects on our relationships with other Christians and with other religions are no laughing matter. Neither is the allied claim that God has made us the center of the universe, an understanding that has legitimized the exploitation of the earth's natural resources. Anne Primavesi argues that the time has come to replace human arrogance with ecological humility and a scientific understanding of ourselves as interdependent members of the whole community of life on earth."--BOOK JACKET.