{"id":945,"date":"2007-05-31T09:10:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-31T09:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godspolitics\/2007\/05\/voice-of-day-norman-wirzba.html"},"modified":"2007-05-31T09:10:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-31T09:10:00","slug":"voice-of-day-norman-wirzba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/2007\/05\/voice-of-day-norman-wirzba.html","title":{"rendered":"Voice of the Day: Norman Wirzba"},"content":{"rendered":"

Christ is the true philosopher because he embodies in his ministry the welcoming and caring reception of others so that they might more fully be the beings they are meant to be. Indeed, in the Christlike effort to understand, serve, heal, feed, and reconcile the earth and its communities we show forth the highest wisdom.<\/p>\n

– Norman Wirzba
excerpt from the essay “Placing the Soul: An Agrarian Philosophical Principle” in The Essential Agraian Reader: The Future of Culture, Community, and the Land, edited by Wirzba. (c) 2003.<\/p>\n

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Christ is the true philosopher because he embodies in his ministry the welcoming and caring reception of others so that they might more fully be the beings they are meant to be. 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