Food for Life: The Spirituality and Ethics of Eating

by L. Shannon Jung

Book Overview

Food for Life draws on L. Shannon Jung's gifts as theologian, ethicist, pastor, and eater extraordinaire. In this deeply thoughtful but very lively book, he encourages us to see our humdrum habits of eating and drinking as a spiritual practice that can renew and transform us and our world. In a fascinating sequence that takes us from the personal to the global, Jung establishes the religious meaning of eating and shows how it dictates a healthy order...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0800636422
• ISBN13: 9780800636425
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Surprisingly Relevant

L. Shannon Jung provokes a searching awareness of our attitudes toward food, distribution ethics, and a different context for eating disorders that is surprisingly relevant for our time, in Food for Life. Though dealing with important and often sobering realities, Jung's writing is easily followed and engaging. No idealist, nor "preacher," Jung leads us through a valuable reflection of our neglect of the whole self while feeding our bodies through unconscious consumption. Highly recommend this book for insights on more intentional and interconnected living...it was not what I expected.