LIBROS DEL AUTOR: paul gilk

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  • Picking Fights with the Gods
    Paul Gilk
    The common understanding of ''apocalypse'' suggests End Times, Armageddon, and the end of the world. But the Greek word apokalypsis means none of these things. What it does mean is uncovering, disclosing, and revelatory.That ''apocalypse'' is so widely misunderstood as predestined disaster isn’t due to natural evolution in meaning. To penetrate the misuse of apokalypsis is to d...
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  • The Kingdom of God Is Green
    Paul Gilk
    In the early 1970s, living in inner-city St. Louis, Paul Gilk asked his friends to explain why small farms were dying. The answers did not satisfy. Years of study followed. Through the reading of history, Gilk began to grasp the origins of both horticulture and agriculture, their blossoming into Neolithic agrarian village culture, and the impoundment of the agrarian village by ...
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  • Polemics and Provocations
    Paul Gilk
    In the twelfth century, an Italian monk named Joachim caught the attention of the Christian West by announcing the Three Ages of the World. Joachim arrived at his formulation by a meshing of the Christian Trinity with the Old and New Testaments, proclaiming--in sequence--the Age of the Father, the Age of the Son, and the Age of the Holy Spirit.In the early modern period, howeve...
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  • Nature’s Unruly Mob
    Paul Gilk
    Growing up in the mostly wooded rural countryside of northern Wisconsin, in the decades immediately after the Second World War, meant immersion in cultural transformation. An economy of subsistence and self-provisioning was rapidly becoming industrialized and commercial. The culture of the local and small-scale was being overpowered by the metropolitan and large-scale. This ex...
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  • Green Politics Is Eutopian
    Paul Gilk
    Various thinkers have attempted to explain the Earth-altering (even ecocidal) features in modern life. Jacques Ellul, for instance, a French intellectual, became famous for his exposition of ''technique.'' But ''technique'' does not adequately address the institutional incubation out of which ''technique'' itself arises. In these essays, Paul Gilk stands on the shoulders of two...
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